Urswick School bans packed lunches
Free school meals offered instead following controversial advice picked up in bid to boost healthy eating
Michael Gove
Hackney NUT attacks Gove’s ‘madcap plan for school holidays’
Divisions locally over government proposals to scrap long summer breaks from 2015
Education in brief
Digital summer camp, new campus for Olympic Park and decline in number of children exercising
Hackney teachers want the environment to stay on curriculum
Plans to put the freeze on climate change and environmental issues on the National Curriculum attract criticism
Education overload – will longer school hours help Hackney’s poorer students?
Michael Gove’s latest plan to lengthen the school day and shorten holidays receives a mixed reception in Hackney
Local authorities gain more influence over free schools
New proposals will grant local authorities more power to help decide locations of free schools and academies
Teachers call for resignation of Mossbourne ex-head Sir Michael Wilshaw
Former headteacher of Hackney’s Mossbourne Academy should resign as Chief Inspector of Schools says teaching union
History teaching in schools faces ‘whitewash’ warn Hackney politicians
Hackney MP Diane Abbott and Cllr Patrick Vernon sign open letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove to scrap National Curriculum reform
Hackney schools support legal challenge over GCSE results
Results downgrading is “unfair” say campaigners as local schools join legal battle against GCSE exam board
Three Hackney free schools given go-ahead by Gove
The Hackney New School, the Olive School and a STEM Academy are due to open in September next year
Academies fail to make grade on good GCSEs, study shows
New exam results analysis shows academies are not outperforming local authority schools – despite additional government funding
Hackney new ‘free school’ opponents gain momentum
Supporters reject claims ‘free school’ plan will only benefit children from well-off families
A new generation of schools offers a cure for jobless youth
In east London, the best jobs aren’t going to local people. A new school aims to solve that
London Mayor Boris Johnson launches schools inquiry
The Mayor of London announces a inquiry to look into the challenges facing schools across the capital
Private firm sniffs a profit in coalition schools policy
‘Mossbourne two’ would meet demands of parents who beg for a place at academy in east London, says headteacher
Ken Livingstone joins Hackney anti EMA cuts demonstration
Students march from BSix sixth form college to the Town Hall to protest cuts to Educational Maintenance Allowances