12:00pm Saturday 31st July 2010
By Andy Tate, Parliamentary Correspondent
Schools in Sussex have snubbed the chance to become academies.
Last month, the Department for Education announced 1,114 schools across the country had expressed an interest in converting to academies.
Of those, 626 had been judged ‘outstanding’ by school inspectors Ofsted, giving them the opportunity to be fast-tracked into academies by this September.
Of the dozen ‘outstanding’ schools in Sussex that expressed an interest in transforming last month, not a single one is featured on the final list published by the DfE this week.
The interested schools that have decided against entering the process at this stage are Dorothy Stringer High School in Brighton and Hove, and Hawkes Farm Primary School, Uckfield Community Technology College, Claverham Community College and Motcombe Community Infant School, in East Sussex.
In West Sussex, they are St Paul’s Catholic College, Bishop Luffa Church of England School in Chichester, Hazelwick School, St Lawrence CE Primary School, Wisborough Green Primary School, Southwater Junior School and Aldingbourne Primary.
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