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PARENTS and teachers blew apart Tory claims yesterday that “failing” schools would improve if forced to become academies.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan published the Education and Adoption Bill yesterday that could see over 1,000 schools turned into academies if Ofsted inspectors mark them poorly.

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