KCC ACTION PLAN NEEDED URGENTLY! Kent County Council has been set a summer deadline by Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families, to develop action plans setting out how the Council is going to improve 32 low-performing schools across the county. Plans are being made to send teams of expert leaders into hundreds of struggling state secondaries across the country as part of a concerted move to eliminate low educational performance. Kent County Council must have an action plan for each of the 32 schools in the county where less than 30% of pupils achieved A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, as well as any coasting schools where performance is not as good as may be expected.Christine Angell, Kent Labour Education spokesperson, said: “Although many schools give an ‘added value’ to education for their students, there is no excuse for not giving the young people ofKent the best education possible in terms of examination results which are essential to help them into the world of work, higher education, further education and vocational training”.Kent Labour Children & Families spokesperson Clive Hart said: “We must make sure that educational failure among the poorest children inKent is not excused by KCC as simply being the result of their already disadvantaged backgrounds. I totally agree with the tough target of 30% set by Gordon Brown last year.“Local councils with highnumbers of grammar schools are among those with poor performance figures. Kent has one of the highest numbers of grammar schools in the country. “KCC must wake up quickly to these performance problems and start acting to really exercise the powers it has for the benefit of Kent's children”.
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