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This is how much fat cat academy bosses stand to make from Tories’ mass school privatisation

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This is how much fat cat academy bosses stand to make from Tories’ mass school privatisation Empty This is how much fat cat academy bosses stand to make from Tories’ mass school privatisation

Post by Guest Wed Mar 16, 2016 5:47 pm

An investigation by Watchsted and Schoolsweek reveals the eye-watering salaries being paid to the fat cat bosses of academy chains at the expense of the taxpayer. This comes as George Osborne announces the Conservatives’ plan to force all of English schools to become academies.

This chart shows ten of the highest paid employees at academy chains:
This is how much fat cat academy bosses stand to make from Tories’ mass school privatisation Bosses-academy-chart
The highest earner is from the Harris Federation , which is owned by millionaire Tory donor and unelected Tory peer Lord Phillip Harris. Daniel Moynihan from this academy federation earns £370,000 a year, more than 2-and-a-half times that of the Prime Minister. His salary has risen by 83% since 2009.

This is known as ‘top slicing’. These academy chains are listed as nonprofit ‘charities’ so cannot pay dividends to shareholders. They get around this by paying vast sums to ‘administrative staff’ and bosses. The Tories will maintain that these academies cannot make profit, but this is entirely disingenuous.

Remember that these obscene salaries are being dolled out at our expense during times of austerity. While Osborne will announce a wholesale move to academy schools today, this will be joined by further cruel austerity cuts. After having dropped his raid on middle-class pension pots remarkably easily, Osborne’s cuts will likely disproportionately affect the poor and vulnerable yet again.

These vast sums should not be going into bosses’ pockets. The money should be invested in our teachers (whose pay is next to nothing in comparison) and students in order to improve British education. These CEOs are profiteering at our expense under the banners of “nonprofit charities”. It is the poor and vulnerable that will suffer as a result.

http://www.thecanary.co/2016/03/16/much-fat-cat-academy-bosses-stand-make-tories-mass-school-privatisation/

They intend to push this through, even though the latest report shows academies are failing.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35492433

The other thing that people don't realise is that it also puts the school quite literally into the hands of private companies.  That means they can sell off playing fields etc, and if the school fails the taxpayer has to buy it back.

Just another way of making money for their mates.

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