EDUCATION bosses are today facing a revolt over their controversial shake-up of Southampton secondary schools.

Their decision to appoint a London-based Christian organisation to run two new secondary schools has provoked widespread condemnation across the city.

The move has angered teachers, councillors, business leaders and even the new Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Southampton Itchen MP John Denham, pictured above.

Some head teachers are calling for a review of the decision by the council's conservative education boss Peter Baillie to closes four secondary schools and replace them with two new acadamies.

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