RT @tes: Conservative MPs raise concerns about plans to allow the Office of the Schools Adjudicator to set a school’s pupil admission numbe…

RT @tes: ‘Poverty is the real enemy here’. @tes examines the challenges and opportunities for academy trusts in Yorkshire and the Humber, a…

Having been an education reporter in the county for a long time seeing the first city academy open in Bradford while working at the @Bradford_TandA in 2005 and the expansion of the programme in the 2010s while at the @yorkshirepost this @tes piece on the region was fun to write.

Our latest deep dive into the academy trust landscape looks at Yorkshire and the Humber. A debate about what excellence should look like and a region "juggling coastal, rural and urban deprivation". Thanks to all the leaders who contributed.

Proposals for deciding when to academise stuck schools are being questioned by @NAHTnews and @ASCL_UK who warn DfE appears to be creating an intervention category that is harder to get out of than it is to fall into.

The proportion of academy trusts reporting deficits has tripled in just three years, a major report into trust finances has found. @jasminenorden with the findings from the latest Academies Benchmark Report.

A poll by @NAHTnews shows more than nine in ten leaders reject Ofsted's report card proposals. Perhaps the most striking line is this: "It also recorded more than 1,900 individual free text comments citing concerns (totalling more than 100 pages) in under 48 hours."

Experts are calling for the re-introduction of statutory language tests and greater support for the growing number of school pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) .

Ministers have signed off on Delta Academies Trust taking on the Coast and Vale Learning Trust's six schools. The decision was referred to ministers at the DfE's December regional advisory board meeting for Yorkshire and the Humber.

Ofsted has found that its inspectors found it more challenging to carry out deep dives into individual subjects in small primary schools under its current inspection framework.

"Imagine hearing repeated complaints that the biggest flaw in inspections is the reliance on single-word judgments, and concluding that the best solution is to double the number of them." A v interesting read from Michael Tidd on the new Ofsted framework.

RT @tes: How schools will be judged under Ofsted’s report card system: as the watchdog reveals its plans in more detail, @JohnGRoberts and…

RT @jon_severs: "The bit that’s going to be difficult for the profession to get its head around is that you can be both strong and need att…

RT @jasminenorden: Chief inspector Martyn Oliver speaks to @JohnGRoberts about Ofsted's new report card plans

Ofsted launches its long awaited plans for report card inspections today. Here is everything you need to know:

Ofsted is producing toolkits giving schools information about how it will arrive at one of five different ratings from causing concern to exemplary across at least eight separate categories. Here is a breakdown of the proposed toolkits published today.

RT @tes: Teacher pay, the national curriculum, attendance – the DfE has laid out how it expects its legislation in these areas will affect…

Most schools using fair banding have a lower proportion of students with low prior attainment and a higher proportion of student with high prior attainment than their nearest neighbouring schools. My investigation for @tes

Per-pupil school funding is set to increase by 1.2 per cent next year after adjusting for inflation, Department for Education figures show. This is widely expected to be outstripped by cost increases.

The number of fines issued to parents for unauthorised term-time holidays increased by almost a quarter in the past academic year. Heads are now urging the govt to take action against "exorbitant" holiday prices.