"Each time a school becomes an academy, funding is removed from the LEA, reducing services and support to remaining schools.
Structured as a nonprofit, the academy funds various archives and a library devoted to the movie world, and it has scattered grants among film festivals and education programs.
Carter, the Kent county council leader, said: "The more academies and free schools you operate, under the current academy funding arrangements, the less maintained schools would get".
And having been impoverished, councils will also lose control of schools as every primary and secondary is forced to become an academy funded directly from the Department for Education.
She is 31, a graduate of the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, the academy funded by the record industry's Brit awards, so she has had a techie streak from the beginning.
And does the chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw's suggestion that academy funding agreements and governance arrangements should be reviewed sound the death-knell for the whole idea of the "independent" state school which now goes back almost 20 years.
Until April, the YPLA, which has now closed, was responsible for overseeing academy funding.
-- A recently-formed judicial "academy" funded by industry groups and conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is offering members of Congress and their staff free meals and trips in order to "educate" the lawmakers on controversial pro-business reforms.
There's also a Day 1 Academies Fund that will launch a network of free, Montessori-inspired schools in low-income neighborhoods.
By contrast, in the Birmingham row, Gove threatened to cut off some academies' funding, giving the first real glimpse of how their status can be used to impose central control.
