Good schools do not benefit from academy conversion but failing schools do show signs of improvement, fresh analysis has revealed.
A study by education specialists SchoolDash compared changes in the performance of 804 mainstream state primary schools that voluntarily converted between 2010 and 2012 with that of 763 ‘similar’ local authority schools.
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