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A FOUNDER of a free school and two members of staff were threatened with prison yesterday after being found guilty of pocketing £150,000 in government grants.
Sajid Hussain Raza, Shabana Hussain and Daud Khan were unanimously convicted at Leeds Crown Court of siphoning the cash into their personal bank accounts from 2010 to 2013. The money from the Department for Education was to help establish the Kings Science Academy in Bradford in 2011, a 500-place secondary school praised by former PM David Cameron.
Mr Cameron made a visit to the school in 2012, one of the first in the country set up as part of the Tory flagship education policy.
JAMIE BRITTON reaches for the sick bucket as he is forced to engorge detail after detail of the Royal Family’s wealth
In the second part of a two-part article, CONOR BOLLINS asks why the government’s ambition when it comes to the military is not applied to sectors where it could do real good
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
