Cable Forum - Cash for academies: Michael Gove 'bribes' schools to change their status

Gove is really embattled with this one very disturbing way to push changes. He becoming quite fiasco running the DFE department. With his recent failings in GCSE changes now we got this.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ed...s-8492386.html

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The Independent understands Â£40,000 in payments have been offered to 32 schools in Lancashire alone, with similar sums offered to schools in other parts of the country. Some schools have also been offered Â£25,000 towards legal fees. In a letter to Mr Gove's department obtained by this newspaper, Tony Roberts, from the NAHT headteachers' union, criticises two "brokers" â€“ officials from the Department for Education (DfE) tasked with converting state schools to academics â€“ for offering payments to win over a reluctant group of state schools in Lancashire.