Commons Consider Honorary society was ace of the schools located in particular measures by Ofsted What are the chief proposals? Mr Gove aforementioned the regime would postulate all schools to "promote British values" and would endorse Ofsted's design to insert no-card schooltime inspections in England. The head inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, recommended:
mandatory grooming for shoal governors
changes to backing agreements for academies and gratis schools
an death to the immunity of unloose schools and academies from the subject curriculum
What bequeath pass to the fin schools in exceptional measures? In his lecture to the Put up of Commons, Mr Gove said the want for action was "urgent".
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Michael Gove says no student should be open to radical views "Academies will receive letters saying I am minded to terminate funding agreements," he told MPS.
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The DfE is awaiting a reply from the cartel and would receive to uncovering raw sponsors for the deuce-ace schools.
How does the political science delimitate British values? Extend recital the briny fib "Start Quote Freedom, tolerance, respect for the rule of law, belief in personal and social responsibility and respect for British institutions""
End Quote Prime Minister, David Cameron The Prime Minister defined British values as "freedom, tolerance, respect for the regulation of law, feeling in grammatical category and societal duty and esteem for British institutions".
David Cameron said he hoped these values would be inculcated in any school in Britain "whether it was a individual school, State school, faith-founded school, release school, honorary society or anything else".
The Department for Education added: "We require to make and apply a clean and strict arithmetic mean on altogether schools to advertize the profound British values of democracy, the dominate of law, separate impropriety and mutual value and margin of those with dissimilar faiths and beliefs."
How will British values be applied to all schools? The Department for Education says the Independent School Standards, which apply to private schools, academies and free schools, already require schools to "respect" British values.
It plans to consult shortly on tighter wording that will require schools to actively "promote" British values.
From September the Ofsted framework will be changed to extend this requirement to all state schools, not just academies.
The DfE says it is working with Ofsted on how inspectors will assess the new requirement. Ofsted will also update its training and guidance of inspectors.
Advice to school governors and local authorities will also be updated to reflect the new requirement.
School governors will be expected to play a role "in scope and securing an earmark ethos and monitoring practice" in schools, says the DfE.
The DfE will also update its advice to local authorities on intervening in schools causing concern.
How might governors' training change? Training for governors is currently optional. It can be provided by local authorities or by the National College of Teaching and Leadership. The Department for Education and the National Governors' Association (NGA) have both produced handbooks.
The NGA says training is essential to help governors understand their complex and challenging role and responsibilities.
Park View Academy is challenging Ofsted's damning verdict on the school Governors are expected to develop the ethos of the school, hold the head teacher to account and have financial oversight.
Governors should be committed to asking challenging questions, should develop good relationships based on trust and should know their school, its staff, pupils and local community.
The NGA says the academies programme has brought more autonomy to schools so governing boards have more responsibility than ever and need training.
"It is critical that governors sleep with what is potential of them," it says.
How could the oversight of academies change? Traditionally, local authorities have had a role in monitoring standards in the schools they control, acting as a "center tier" between schools and the Department for Education.
Now over half of secondary schools are academies, funded directly by central government, free of local authority control and able to decide their own curriculum.
Concerns have been expressed about the viability of Whitehall monitoring thousands of academies. The government is introducing schools commissioners to improve oversight of academies, while Labour proposes a network of regional school standards directors.
Academy chains, which control several schools, are currently inspected by the Department for Education. Sir Michael Wilshaw argues that Ofsted, which already inspects academy schools, should take over the role.
What was the Trojan Horse letter? In March, an anonymous letter was made public that claimed to be a template illustrating how state schools could be taken over and pushed into adopting a more Islamic culture.
The document - now thought to be a hoax - proposed a campaign of installing governors and undermining and then replacing school leaders with staff who would be more sympathetic to their religious agenda.
It refers to "Mathematical operation Trojan Horse" as the name of the alleged conspiracy. This classical allusion refers to using a device to get past the defences and to take over the school system from within.
It was apparently intended for schools serving areas with a large Muslim population.
The tactics it proposed had already been used in Birmingham, the Operation Trojan Horse letter claimed.
It emerged that Birmingham City Council, the Department for Education's Extremist Unit, the West Midlands Police Counter-Terrorism Unit and the National Association of Head Teachers were already aware of the letter.
A former head teacher at a Birmingham school said that such religiously-motivated, concerted attempts at forcing out heads had been taking place since the 1990s. Another head teacher said he had told the DfE about the problem in 2010.
What are the claims? There have been claims that boys and girls are being taught separately, assemblies have put forward extremist Islamist views and that a culture is created in which other religions are downgraded. Schools have rejected claims of extremism.
There are also claims that teachers and head teachers have been discredited and undermined.
How seriously are claims of takeover plots being taken? Education Secretary Michael Gove appointed former counter-terror chief, Peter Clarke, to investigate whether there is any substance to the claims.
This appointment has created a controversy of its own, with the chief constable of West Midlands police calling it "urgently unfortunate" as people could draw "unjustifiable conclusions" from Mr Clarke's former role in counter terrorism.
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw took personal charge of the education watchdog's investigations.
Khalid Mahmood, MP for Perry Barr, believes there are reasons to be concerned. "Completely the entropy I'm acquiring... is there has been a grievous offer to study terminated near of the schools in the east and southward of the city," he said.
Local MP Khalid Mahmood shares concerns about schools being targeted The National Association of Head Teachers says it takes the claims "super seriously".
Reaction to the claims and to Ofsted's findings from the schools has been robust. The chairman of one governing body described the inquiries as a "beldame hunt" and Park View says it plans to challenge Ofsted's verdict.
Tahir Alam, chair of governors at Park View School, says claims are "ridiculous" How are the claims being investigated? Including Ofsted's, there are four investigations - carried out by Birmingham City Council, the Department for Education and the Education Funding Agency.
Ofsted said this was "New territory" - when it launched its biggest ever co-ordinated set of inspections over fears of extremism. It inspected 21 schools - a mix of primary, secondary, local authority and academies.
Ofsted has carried out inspections in 18 schools They carried out unannounced inspections of a type which focuses on a single concern, rather than the overall quality of teaching and learning.
When inspectors do not like what they find they have wide-ranging powers to intervene and order a change of direction.
The city council says that it is investigating 25 schools - prompted by more than 200 contacts from the public. An adviser has been appointed and there will be a review group of MPs, councillors, teachers' organisations, police and faith leaders.
There is a freeze on recruiting new school governors while this inquiry is taking place.
But the politics of education have also become involved, with the council saying it is frustrated that it cannot investigate academies which operate outside of local authority control.
The Education Funding Agency can investigate the financial arrangements of academies.
How did Home Secretary Theresa May become involved? In a letter to the Education Secretary, Mrs May has raised concerns about the DfE's handling of the allegations of extremism.
She said concerns had been raised about the "inability" of local and central government to tackle the alleged problem in Birmingham's schools.
Mrs May said the allegations raised serious questions about the quality of governance She also questioned whether Mr Gove's department was warned about the allegations in 2010 and asked: "If so, why did nonentity dissemble?"
The two senior Cabinet members have now moved to dampen down speculation of a rift. They have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint statement insisting they are "functional together" on the issue.
Commentators are seeing the row as two Conservative heavy-weights jostling for position should there be any change to the party's leadership.
How widespread is this problem? The biggest inquiry so far is the council's, which is looking at 25 schools in Birmingham, out of more than 400 in the city. The council says that it will also be talking to local authorities in Bradford and Manchester.
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