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| Trojan Horse: Park View School to lose funding | Trojan Horse: Park View School to lose funding |
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| Park View School, at the centre of the Trojan Horse inquiry, has lost its national funding, the BBC understands. | |
| The government has written to Park View Educational Trust chairman Tahir Alam informing him the supplemental funding agreement will be terminated. | |
| It comes after Ofsted published 21 reports into schools allegedly targeted as part of a hardline Muslim takeover. | It comes after Ofsted published 21 reports into schools allegedly targeted as part of a hardline Muslim takeover. |
| A school spokesman said they would challenge the Ofsted report through the appropriate legal channels. | A school spokesman said they would challenge the Ofsted report through the appropriate legal channels. |
| The letter, from minister in charge of academies Lord Nash, said: "I have decided under clause 5.6 of the supplementary funding agreement for the academy to give written notice of the Secretary of State's intention to terminate that agreement." | The letter, from minister in charge of academies Lord Nash, said: "I have decided under clause 5.6 of the supplementary funding agreement for the academy to give written notice of the Secretary of State's intention to terminate that agreement." |
| It invited the school to respond before 4 July. | |
| Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said "a culture of fear and intimidation has taken grip" in Birmingham schools, while a number of head teachers had reported an "organised campaign to target certain schools in order to impose a narrow, faith-based ideology". | |
| The report into Park View School said the academy's work to keep students safe, including from extremism, was inadequate. | |
| It also said external speakers had not been vetted properly and the school had allowed a guest with known extremist views, to speak to students as part of Islamic-themed assemblies. |