{"id":139605,"date":"2014-09-23T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139605"},"modified":"2014-09-23T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T17:14:19","slug":"academies-schools-grabbing-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/academies-schools-grabbing-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Academies schools are grabbing our cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sadie Robinson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Academy trusts and their firms are grabbing \u201cvery large sums of public money\u201d with little accountability, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The research from London\u2019s Institute of Education highlighted \u201cloopholes\u201d and \u201cconflicts of interest\u201d in a number of academies.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Enterprise Trust (AET) paid nearly \u00a3500,000 into the private business interests of its trustees and executives over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The payments were for services such as HR consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>The AET plans to \u201coutsource\u201d all non-teaching workers across its 77 schools to a for-profit organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Another trust, the Aurora Academies Trust, paid \u00a3100,000 to its parent company Mosaica Education to use its curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the academy system \u201clacks transparency and is overly politicised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tory education secretary Nicky Morgan will give evidence to an inquiry into academy schools next month.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/socialistworker.co.uk\/art\/39035\/Academies+schools+are+grabbing+our+cash?\" target=\"_blank\">This piece<\/a> was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadie Robinson Academy trusts and their firms are grabbing \u201cvery large sums of public money\u201d with little accountability, according to a new report. The research from London\u2019s Institute of Education highlighted \u201cloopholes\u201d and \u201cconflicts of interest\u201d in a number of academies. The Academy Enterprise Trust (AET) paid nearly \u00a3500,000 into the private business interests of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}