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A HIGH court threw out a legal challenge yesterday to convert a troubled school into an academy against the wishes of local people.
Education Secretary Michael Gove announced in May that the 1,285-pupil Warren Comprehensive School in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, which has been in “special measures,” should become an academy.
Mr Gove decided to make an academy order under the Academies Act 2010, taking the school out of the hands of the local council, despite the fact that its results are improving.
The school’s governing body carried out a consultation on the school’s future.
Of the 431 responses, 85 per cent were in favour of the school remaining under local council control in a new federation with another local school.
But Mr Justice Supperstone, sitting at London’s High Court, rejected all the grounds of challenge to Mr Gove’s decision and concluded that he was “entitled to take a different view to those who responded to the consultation.”to the consultation.”
