For parents, students and everyone interested in education: Look for new schools in your area and get the basic facts and
figures about free schools.
For parents, students and everyone interested in education: Look for new schools in your area and get the basic facts and
figures about free schools.
The overall conclusion that there is not enough evidence for either positive or negative
conclusions about free schools is entirely correct at this stage.
The report is also
concerned about the free schools programme's «escalating capital costs», with the government having budgeted to spend # 1.5 bn to March 2015.
«Whatever he
says about free schools today, the truth is this divisive policy is his - enacted by his Tory - led government because of his help and support.»
Most damagingly for Gove, some of the failures of the school directly correlate to concerns
raised about free schools by new Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.
The GMB union does not often put out press releases welcoming Lib Dem announcements, but it likes the
news about free school meals.
As with this week's other row, over Michael Gove's political advisers using private email channels to circumvent FoI
inquiries about their free schools policy, we can see that civil servants have difficult jobs which both politicians and the media can make much harder.
Natalie Evans, director of the New Schools Network, explains all there is to know about free schools
Outlines routes to a new employer — a transfer to academy status, a transfer from a single academy to a multi-academy trust, a transfer to a new multi-academy trust and a
note about free schools.
Today's Policy Exchange «research» conveniently released a bunch of positive
facts about free schools on the exact same day that David Cameron announced 49 new ones and committed to opening 500 more.
Transparency isn't mentioned, which is odd as one of the authors, Jonathan Simons, has long advocated for more sharing of
information about free schools.
The education secretary said: «The
truth about free schools is that they help children in areas where they've been let down in the past.»
The general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, Chris Keates, said the research confirmed everything that his organisation had been
saying about free schools.
Baronness Buscombe, a Conservative peer, said the Deputy Prime Minister was being hypocritical by raising
concerns about free schools and their staff when he was most likely taught by «brilliant» unqualified teachers as a child.
Division Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in Derby, Sue Arguile, said: «What is happening with Al - Madinah is really indicative of why we are concerned
about free schools - because of the lack of accountability.
When asked why she chose to send her children to the school, Caroline Withers replied; «We liked the ethos of the Headmaster, we really bought into what he said
about Free Schools, how they can tailor it to the individual child's needs.»