That school has now applied for academy status.
In June Michael Gove claimed that 1,100 schools had applied for academy status.
Gove suggests that schools that want that funding should apply for academy status.
Education secretary Michael Gove has written to every school in England inviting them to apply for academy status.
As well as continuing to open sponsored academies, the coalition Government has opened up the scheme to allow all schools to apply for academy status.
Education secretary Michael Gove has invited all primary and secondary schools to apply for academy status and enjoy the greater freedoms that result.
2010 Michael Gove, the new education secretary, says he hopes academies that are autonomous from local authorities become "the norm" and urges all schools in the country to apply for academy status, including, for the first time, primaries.
How on earth could any school have decided already to apply for academy status, wondered an infants' school governor, when detail about the nitty gritty, including the actual cash involved, was hard to sleuth.
Originally called city academies, the Labour government dropped the word "city" to allow for academies in struggling rural areas as well as inner cities. Michael Gove, the new education secretary, hopes academies become "the norm" and is urging all schools in the country to apply for academy status, including primaries for the first time.
"We will invite every school which is already high-achieving to apply for academy status, with the freedoms and benefits that brings, provided they produce an action plan showing how they will use their new freedoms to help a currently under-performing school.
