The charity trust which owns the school told parents the a way out was to apply for free school status.
The school was awarded free school status, which means it is funded directly from central government, in July last year.
They say switching a school to Academy status puts public assets into private ownership, reduces local accountability, allows private sponsors to dictate areas of the curriculum and threatens union representation.
While the business schools at Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and Duke offer full alumni status to advanced management program participants, schools such as Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School grant only partial alumni status.
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"Having a national, professional qualification for head teachers has helped to raise the profile and status of school leadership in this country and it is something we should be proud of, " said Mr Lightman.
Only nine of the county's secondary schools and only one primary school have applied for academy status, he said.
"For us, the only way to escape our economic status was through school, and that's what my mum always told us, " Pejic says.
At an immigration court hearing this week, however, the court heard that Tazhayakov's status with the school was terminated January 3, according to a U.S. government official.
Nor can a school simply renounce its charitable status and the perks that go with it if it finds the new regime too onerous: assets already amassed by a charity must be used for charitable purposes.
These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
The School Food Trust is losing its status as a public body, as part of ministers' drive to cut quangos.
Head teacher Karen Moore said the school would appeal and was considering academy status, which would remove it from local authority control.
The blogger has also written about football culture in the town, and has blamed it for elevating the status of the high-school athletes and allowing exceptions for them.
Parents are also being urged to sign up for emails where they will receive automatic alerts when a change is made to the status of either their chosen school or school category - primary, secondary or special.
But the opposition parties said that attempts to blame school selection policies and the "foundation" status of three schools had been a smokescreen.
For years, the Big Ten had courted Notre Dame as a potential member, but the school resisted so it could maintain its independent status in football.
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Mr Gove thinks he can nudge exclusive private schools, which are fighting to retain their charitable status, into opening free-school relatives as a way of looking socially responsible.
And with the governors of the school under pressure from Whitehall to convert to academy status, almost half the council's budget could disappear.
For those academically at-risk teenagers of which her son would join, the school has not initiated any plan to change the status quo.
The Big Ten had for years courted Notre Dame, but the school resisted as it sought to retain its independent status in college football.
Dr. Nigel Nicholson, who teaches organizational behavior at the London Business School, explains that gossip is part of status consciousness (as is envy).
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This first round of assessments of private schools has seen the approval of charitable status for three schools, Manchester Grammar School, Pangbourne College and Moyles Court School.
He also played his way into the final stage at the Tour's qualifying school earlier this month and came away with partial status on the Nationwide Tour for 2012.
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My high school buddy says my doppelganger wasn't sending out status updates.
To the credit of the school, it fired the coach and demoted the team to club status after the scandal broke.
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But, the status quo is, in fact, tantamount to saddling school-age children with more debt, weaker economic growth, and fewer opportunities for jobs and advancement.
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There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.
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