Sentences with phrase «good new schools»

Free schools have created thousands of good new school places since 2011.

She outlined plans to «relax the restrictions that stop selective schools from expanding» and argued that it was «illogical to make it illegal to open good new schools» and said it denied parents «the right to have a new selective school opened where they want one».

While we await specific criteria for the next wave of centrally - funded free schools, the local authority «presumption» programme continues to offer a chance to set up good new schools in areas of pressing need.

Schools system minister, Lord Nash, said in a statement: «Free schools are providing many good new school places in response to the needs of communities across the country.

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network which supports the opening of free schools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for too long.

A study by the independent education research group MDRC confirmed how well our new schools are working.

«Frankly, it is completely illogical to make it illegal to open good new schools.