United Kingdom

Academies criticised for expelling 10,000

Privately-sponsored schools accused of offloading difficult pupils to neighbouring state schools.

Academies have been accused of excluding disproportionately high numbers of students after it emerged that they expelled nearly 10,000 pupils for poor behaviour last year.
The privately-sponsored state schools were responsible for 2% of all temporary exclusions and 3% of permanent exclusions, despite making up only 0.3% of state schools in the England, according to official figures published yesterday.

The figures provide firm evidence that academies have excluded disproportionately high numbers of pupils, a criticism levelled by anti-academy campaigners who claim the schools are offloading difficult pupils on to their neighbours. The National Union of Teachers said that they had been given privileges at the expense of neighbouring state schools.

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