Pupil premium: schools to face more scrutiny over use of funds

Michael Wilshaw said disadvantaged children very often received indifferent teaching. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PASchools are to face closer scrutiny over the performance of their disadvantaged pupils, under plans that could see "outstanding" primaries and secondaries stripped of their top Ofsted ranking if youngsters fail to make good progress.Under the new plan to focus on those pupils the chief inspector of schools, Michael Wilshaw, has called "the invisible children," Ofsted inspectors

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