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Brum Anti-Academies Public Meeting

D | 05.11.2008 13:21 | Education | Workers' Movements | Birmingham

PUBLIC MEETING
7pm Tuesday 25 November
The Council House,
Victoria Square,
Birmingham City Centre.

Six Birmingham Secondary Schools to be given away to private ‘sponsors’.
A seventh will select all of its pupils on their ‘aptitude’in the performing arts.
Academy ‘consultation meetings’ are nothing more than a sales pitch.
But opposition to the whole Academies policy is growing.
Come and hear the case against it and take part in the discussion, with…

Francis Beckett, author of the book ‘The Great City Academy Fraud’

Viv Lockwood from the campaign against academies in Sheffield.

Dave Wilkinson, on the school strike against the academy at Sinfin school, Derby.

Peter Wynne-Wilson, a parent with experiences of a local Academy

Richard Hatcher on the campaign in Birmingham against 7 proposed Academies

Alliance Against Birmingham Academies, c/o Birmingham NASUWT 12 The Wharf, Bridge Street, B1 2JS

The Alliance Against Birmingham Academies joins parents, campaigners and all of Birmingham’s education unions in saying ‘Stop privatisation - Save our Schools! For details call 07842 199 352 or email us at  no2academies@hotmail.co.uk

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- e-mail: no2academies@hotmail.co.uk


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