Tracey Cleverly, who co-founded and now leads the Learning Academy Partnership, has been at the trust through both successes and financial difficulties. Now, she’s an adviser on the government’s review of academy regulations. She tells Jess Staufenberg of her hopes for the sector
Tracey Cleverly had just made what was potentially her “worst career choice”. It was 2010 and she had become deputy headteacher at a failing school (Ellacombe C of E primary in Devon) while Ofsted inspectors were breathing down its neck.
Cleverly went in with all guns blazing.
