The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/downhills-primary-school-a-notorious-school-that-has-become-an-advert-for-the-academy-system-9013892.html
Downhills Primary changed to Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane.
Richard Garner, the Independent's education editor: "I must confess that at the time of the controversy I felt that the Government was being a bit heavy-handed because of the school's 2012 results. However, it would now be hard to deny that the children are getting a better standard of education. And that's the main thing.
"A few teachers left after the handover – some because they did not feel that they could live up to the new regime's insistence that every lesson should be good or outstanding, others out of principle that they would prefer to work for a local authority-maintained school than an academy. Almost all the parents stayed loyal to the school, though."
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