They were never meant to raise levels, surely - they were created in order to funnel yet more public money into private organisations' coffers, with no accountability.
In spite of the vast sums of public money given to the private sector to run academies for profit as part of Michael Gove's bitter hatred of Local Education Authorities, we have not improved attainment. We have also damaged millions of children by branding them "failures". Gove's elitist project.
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