The school of hard knocks
At Hackney’s Boxing Academy, last-chance pupils are punching their way to a brighter future
Free School
Hackney free school in limbo as opening delayed another year
Hackney Wick Academy has pushed back its opening beyond 2016 in order to raise ‘significant additional capital investment’
Confusion over future of squat in former police station earmarked for free school
Neither Department for Education nor Tauheedul Free Schools Trust can say if eviction proceedings have yet been launched
Exclusive: Squatters take over former Hackney Central police station
Homelessness not politics is motivation, claim occupiers
Rivendale bids to open free school in Hackney
The Citizen meets James Woods from Rivendale Education, a group which plans to set up a school free from local authority control. If it succeeds, pupils and parents can expect some radical changes
There is no such thing as a ‘free school’ for Hackney
A local resident explains why we should be concerned about plans for a publicly-funded school that has no democratic accountability
Plans afoot for Free School for Hackney
Parents and teachers have put forward ideas for a state-funded school that is free from local authority control