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In December 2013 Al-Hijrah School was rated "inadequate" and placed in [[special measures]] by [[Ofsted]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-27574922 Police 'could be sent' into failing Birmingham school], 26 May 2014</ref><ref name="dtmar">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/10700041/Muslim-extremists-and-a-worrying-lesson-for-us-all.html "Muslim extremists, and a worrying lesson for us all"], 16 Mar 2014</ref> Amid what Ofsted called “too heavy involvement” by governors in the day-to-day running of the school, it had gone through three head teachers in the 18 months to March 2014.<ref name="dtmar"/> Soon after this [[Birmingham City Council]] replaced the governors of the school with an interim executive board. The council has stated that the governing body had created a considerable budget deficit.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-27715067 "Al-Hijrah School: Council 'blew budget on mobile classrooms' claim"], 5 Jun 2014</ref> In December 2014 Birmingham City Council announced that it was investigating claims that state-funding for Al-Hijrah School was diverted to set up a school in Pakistan.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-30286471 "Birmingham trust 'set up Pakistan school with public cash'"], 1 Dec 2014</ref>
In September 2016, the school was at the centre of a legal battle over alleged sex discrimination and sought to prevent publication of an Ofsted report that criticised the school for its policy of [[Sex segregation|separating boys and girls]] at the school.<ref name="BBC27916">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37485573|title=School seeks to block critical Ofsted report|date=27 September 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref> In July 2017, the High Court ruled that Ofsted could name the school, but that Ofsted had been "erroneous" to claim that such separation was illegal.<ref name="BBC11717">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40562226|title=Faith school in Ofsted 'sex discrimination' row can be named|date=11 July 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref> In July 2017, the [[Department for Education|Department of Education]] ordered the leadership of the school to be taken over by an independent trust after books were found in the library which said that a man [[Domestic violence|can beat his wife]] lightly and that a wife must [[Marital rape|submit to her husband]] even if she doesn't want to have sex.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-order-takeover-of-muslim-school-after-it-is-branded-unsafe-kcd3ktqk9|title=Ministers order takeover of Muslim school after it is branded unsafe|last=Editor|first=Sian Griffiths, Education|access-date=2017-07-17|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-school-taken-over-government-ofsted-al-hijrah-mohammed-ismaeel-ashraf-birmingham-gender-a7843511.html|title=Muslim school where library books said husbands could beat wives to be taken over by Government|last=Agerholm|first=Harriet|date=16 July 2017|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=4 October 2017}}</ref>
In 2019, Ofsted reported that gender segregation in the school was significant and ongoing, including requiring girls to wait to eat until "all the boys had finished."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-47090045|title='Boys eat lunch first' at faith school|date=2019-02-01|access-date=2019-10-20|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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