Bridget Chapman, a member from Lambeth, south London, and chair of the anti-academy alliance, said she objected to profits being made from public services, "often from the most vulnerable in our society".
Eventually, additional endowment was provided to POSTECH under the new industry-academy alliance concept.
Through this strategic industry-academy alliance with close involvement from the government, POSCO was then able to provide POSTECH with endowments that enabled the university to evolve into an autonomous yet independent entity while being recognized as a partner of industry.
But the Anti-Academies Alliance attacked the report as "partial and selective", and said the expansion of academies was driven by "narrow ideology" rather than evidence of school improvement.
"If schools are not in a cluster or an alliance or an academy chain then where do they go for external support?" she says.
There are a number of other models for delivering improvement, including academy chains and teaching school alliances.
Maleeka's International certifications are through The Coach Training Academy and affiliated with the Certified Coaches Alliance (CCA).
But while relative upstarts such as teaching school alliances, self-improving clusters and academy chains garner attention, federations still have their adherents.
The alliance has set up a legal academy to train attorneys in constitutional law and a biblical world view, as part of efforts to build "an enduring legal force of allies" who can fight these battles in the courts.
Anyway, Raven Software, responsible for the excellent Jedi Academy and all those great X-Men and Ultimate Alliance games, is busting out with the new version sometime soon, and hints from both PC Gamer and SpikeTV suggest it'll be at E3 (and why not?).
However, while at an academy, he was told by officials that the Rebel Alliance had killed his parents.
