Schools told to improve
Three schools across the county have been hit with Directive Academy Orders.
The schools are King Edward VI High School in Stafford, Brewood C of E Primary School in Brewood and Dosthill Primary School in Tamworth.
The orders come from the Government and are given out to under performing schools.
When a directive academy order is given out, local authorities and governors are given an obligation to provide a timetable for how they follow the order to improve.
Orders are often sent with no specific timescale for conversion into an Academy.
The notices do set out the problems that providers must resolve, a timescale and the conditions under which the notice will be lifted.
Issues at the schools will be discussed at a Staffordshire County Council Schools Forum meeting on Monday, March 27.
Last month, the Express & Star revealed that 'weak' teaching had been criticised by Ofsted inspectors in a report on King Edward VI High School, which was given a rating of 'inadequate'.
Inspectors made a raft of criticisms of King Edward VI saying too many pupils are failing to make progress with expectations too low among staff.
The school, which has more than 700 pupils, had been rated as good in some areas by inspectors in 2014 but has now slipped back again according to the education watchdog.
Brewood Middle School was also given an inadequate rating after it was deemed pupils had been put at risk when teachers had asked them to go home at lunchtime
Osted found a catalogue of failings when it visited Brewood Church of England Middle School over two days in December 2016 – but the school has now appealed the verdict.
Some pupils attended school in the morning and were then allowed by leaders to go home by the afternoon.
Dosthill Primary School was rated inadequate after inspectors declared: "Leaders do not ensure that teaching is consistently good across the school.
"There is some teaching which is inadequate."
Earlier this month, the National Union of Teachers revealed research that shows that schools across the Black Country and Staffordshire will see funding slashed by up to 10 per cent under Government plans.
Schools in Staffordshire will be £33.72m worse off under the proposals in five years time, a fall of 7 per cent.
