767 primary schools freshly in line for academy status?

The Times: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3946881.ece

"Hundreds more primary schools have slipped beneath the minimum level of test results after Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, tightened the threshold. Results published yesterday showed that children at 767 primary schools recorded unacceptably low test scores in May.

"The Department for Education said that it would act against those that failed to improve or whose results were consistently poor, imposing new leadership and governance from academy sponsors with a record of turning around weak schools."


Not likely to happen says Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/17/education-failing-primary-schools-academy-gove:

"But do these predictions come true? Education Guardian has crunched the numbers for those primaries that missed the floor targets last year and found that fewer than one in five has since converted to sponsored academy status. Only 106 of the 535 schools not reaching the floor targets in 2012 feature on the education department's current sponsored academies list, with 43 listed as being in the pipeline to become sponsored academies. In fact, of the 50 schools right at the bottom of last year's league tables, only 10 are either academies already or in line for conversion. Overall, the number of sponsored primary academies has grown by only 291 over the past 12 months, with a further 159 in planning. The total comes well short of the figure of 600."