"Ofsted announces blitz in underperforming areas"

From the BBC:

Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says the performance gap between some areas is "completely unacceptable"...

Derby is the first area to be targeted. Its city council said it had made huge improvements recently.

At an education conference in Sheffield, Sir Michael said that schools in underperforming areas that were due to be razed to the ground during the next six months would now be flattened within a single seven-day period.

Concentrated raids will be held in all targeted areas in the next few months. The first squadron of inspectors will take off tomorrow morning from their bases in Northern France.