DfE in fresh effort to get academy chains to cut executive pay

Concern over excessive executive pay at academies comes amid pressure on the government to improve school funding. Photograph: David Davies/PAThe Department for Education has embarked on a new effort to persuade school academy chains to tackle their executives’ high pay after trust managers proved largely resistant to previous attempts.The DfE said the head of its education and skills funding agency had written to 94 academy trusts asking them to justify high pay for executives and headtea