While there are concerns schools are moving less-able students off their books,research showed 329 schools fell below government performance targetsMore than 10000 pupils left England’s mainstream state secondary schools in the hasten-up to their GCSE courses, according to an analysis of official data by the Guardian. The figures come amid concerns league-table pressures are incentivising institutions to move students who are unlikely to carry out well off their books. In the two years prior to summer 2015, or thousands of teenagers were excluded,shifted to special schools or assign into units for children with behaviour problems, while the number of pupils educated in conventional state secondaries and academies shrunk by more than 2%. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com