Almost 1,000 more middle leaders are to be trained to work in schools in challenging circumstances through the Teaching Leaders programme.
It comes after schools minister David Laws confirmed that the charity is to have its funding extended until 2016, helping it to more than double the number of middle leaders it works with – from 766 currently to 1,706.
Teaching Leaders, which launched five years ago in London, trains middle leaders to work in schools where more than 15 per cent of the cohort is on free school meals, or where less than 40 per cent meet the five A* to C GCSE benchmark.
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