Some school choose to become an Academy to avoid being taken over by a MAT. One I was working at felt that if they were one of the few LEA schools left in the city, they would be compelled to accept challenging pupils who had been excluded from other local Academies. So, the governors decided to become a Cooperative Academy with no money grabbing company involved. It works well for that school giving some measure of independence without funds being siphoned off. However, by choice, we would have remained an LEA school but the writing was on the wall!
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