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The Omagh Academy ABP Team comprising of Agriculture Club pupils has reached the finals of the prestigious ABP Angus Youth competition.
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OMAGH ACADEMY is a high achieving grammar school.
We welcome pupils from a wide geographical area and from over 25 primary schools. At present we have 675 pupils – big enough to offer lots of subject choice, but not too big which allows the school to maintain a family atmosphere and excellent relationships. We are a non-denominational, controlled grammar school, which means that we have pupils from all religious and cultural backgrounds.
Our 21
st Century curriculum encourages pupils to be curious, confident and resilient. We focus on academic success, with pupils being stretched and challenged. We set targets based on their abilities and skills, and offer support to help each pupil achieve these. There is a large variety of both academic and vocational subjects offered at GCSE and A Level.
DeVos Is on Her Way Out, But Public Education Is Still Very Much Under Attack
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the U.S. Department of Education July 8, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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When a Biden victory in the 2020 presidential election became certain, supporters of public education gleefully took to social media to say good riddance to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. DeVos came into office with an agenda to further the privatization of public education by expanding charter schools and by encouraging families to opt out of public schools by any means possible. During her tenure, she effectively used her bully pulpit to cheer on efforts by Republican state lawmakers to expand various forms of voucher programs that give parents public money to homeschool their children or send them to private schools. She awarded many of the nation’s largest charter school chains with millions in f