There are lots of bodies with conflicting jobs: there's the remit of the DfE and regional schools commissioners (RSCs) in accountability for academies, local authorities working with maintained schools, Ofsted working with local authorities and schools across the board, including academies, but not necessarily working seamlessly – and often having a slightly overlapping remit with RSCs.
The academy charges local students $2.50 a week to attend.
Telling us, "academy good, local authority bad" was just one of Gove's porkies.
So he took charge of the academy's local development corporation to see if what clicked for an old opera house might work for vacant lots.
Plans announced by the chancellor, George Osborne, last week will exacerbate the already serious retention and recruitment crisis in both academy and local authority schools, say teachers' leaders.
When it becomes an academy, the local authority is compelled to give (for a peppercorn rent) a 125-year lease to whichever "sponsor" comes in to take over the school.
So many of the kids in our academy are local lads, Mancunians and City fans who want to be at the club for emotional as well as professional reasons.
The museum finally opened in 1793, but there was still uncertainty as to whether it should be an academy of local masterpieces or a wide overview of art's historical development.
"They should not have to wait for somebody in Whitehall to intervene if they have serious concerns about how their school is doing, whether it is a free school, academy or local authority school.
Liberal Democrat plans to return academies to local authority control could mark the effective abolition of the academies programme (or at least the removal of one of its defining characteristics); Conservative plans to turn ever more schools into academies, and encourage parents to open academies in their area, could mark the effective abolition of local education authorities.
