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An east London school where a 15-year-old black girl was strip-searched by police officers is facing legal action and calls for its headteacher to resign

Ministers should lift the veil of secrecy around how they award million-pound bailouts to struggling academy trusts, say MPs on the public accounts committee

The highest-paid have seen bigger pay rises than the rest, with some academy trusts reining in pay even as a government crackdown stalls

Sewell report: Ministers will ask schools to report on governor diversity and plan new guidance aimed at preventing discrimination against pupils with afro hair

Regional schools commissioner advisor results were delayed more than two months, after a mid-election boundary review

Newman RC College held back funds from PFI firms and threatened legal action against a council over repeated building woes

Government has said the country's third largest trust must prove it has the 'capacity to deliver rapid and sustainable improvement'

The DfE faces calls to apologise after a legal challenge halted its academisation push with Hallam diocese, whose schools also saw funding delayed

Schools in some parts of England are more than 10 times times less likely to be academies as other areas, a Schools Week investigation has found

The government is expected to set an ambition for all schools to become academies by 2030 in its upcoming white paper, Schools Week has learned