HEADTEACHERS and governors across the Tendring district have hit back at a damning report by education watchdogs.

The area’s schools were criticised in Ofsted’s East of England regional report.

It showedmore than 60 per cent of schools in the Clacton constituency were “less than good”. The figure was the worst in the region.

Clacton MP Douglas Carswell claimed the reason was a “lack of quality teaching in the classroom”.

But headteachers and governors have now hit back over the claims, saying good work is going on in schools.

Read the full story in the Clacton Gazette, out now.