Parents are fighting plans to force Sheffield’s last maintained secondary into a trust that has “coasting” schools, reigniting controversies over the transparency of academy decisions.
The Department for Education wants the Brigantia Learning Trust to take over the King Edward VII School (KES) after its ‘inadequate’ Ofsted in September.
Department bosses said its regional director had taken “swift action” to give the secondary – which calls itself one of the “most prestigious” in the city – a “rapid” boost.
But education professor Mark Boylan, whose daughter is a pupil at KES, said the move contradicted the government’s own “coasting” crackdown to force schools with two less-than-good inspections into new academy trusts.
