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| Al-Madinah free school in Derby to stop secondary education | |
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| Secondary education at the troubled Al-Madinah free school will stop at the end of the summer term, the government has announced. | |
| A report from Ofsted in October found the school in Derby was in chaos, dysfunctional and inadequate and it was placed in special measures. | |
| The primary school will remain open, the Department for Education has said. | |
| The schools minister Lord Nash has written to the school trust chairman to confirm the secondary school closure. | |
| 'Focus efforts' | |
| A Department for Education spokesperson said in a statement: "The vast majority of free schools are performing well but where we have found failure we have acted swiftly and decisively. | |
| "We have monitored Al-Madinah very closely since problems came to light last year. | |
| "Based on the current situation we believe the new board - which began work last week - needs to focus efforts on the primary school in order to bring about the level of improvement required. | |
| "The board has accepted our decision to close the secondary school and we have offered our full support in helping pupils to find alternative places before the start of the next academic year." | |
| Arshad Mohammed, who has a daughter in the secondary school, said he was not surprised. | |
| He said: "With all the negative media attention that's been going on in the last year or so the numbers [of pupils] have dropped a little bit… they can't sustain the numbers so it's not financially viable to keep the school running." |