All schools, including special schools, will be able to become academies.

It could lead to all the city's schools being forced to become academies.

I predict that by the next general election most schools will have become academies.

Do you want to see more primary schools become academies?

ACADEMIES Enable more schools to become academies and give teachers greater freedom over the curriculum.

He gathered more than 150 headteachers in Westminster to try to persuade them to become academies.

There will be legislation to enable pupil referral units, where excluded pupils are taught, to become academies.

Ministers want to force all schools in England to become academies making them independent of local authority control.

George Osborne announced in his budget that all state schools are to be forced to become academies by 2020.

Here they explain why In his latest budget George Osborne called for all schools to become academies by 2022.

The coalition has introduced measures to allow all schools to become academies, and to allow parents, teachers and charities to set up free schools.

Free schools were given approval in the Academies Act 2010, which also paved the way for existing state primary and secondary schools to become academies.

And what was driving all these schools to consider becoming academies?

Then large additional sums of public money were given by the government to other schools, but only if they became academies.