And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools
opt out of local authority control.
Choice of the Oratory was criticised because the school had opted
out of local authority control; choice of St Olave's was criticised because admission was selective.
This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of number of schools opting
out of Local Authority control and becoming academies; employers in their own right.
This paper studies a recent British reform that allowed public high schools to opt
out of local authority control and become autonomous schools funded directly by the central government.
The other is the academies programme, where good schools are being encouraged to opt
out of local authority control.
«Because of the academy programme encouraging schools to opt
out of local authority control, you've got increasing numbers of schools acting individually, on their own.
That bill was introduced to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» and speed up the process of dealing with failing schools by taking
them out of local authority control and putting them in the hands of academy sponsors.
Rage, because critics of academisation, which by definition takes schools
out of local authority control, will see this latest move as a further erosion of democratic accountability.
The coalition government is pushing ahead with its Academies Bill, under which all schools in England will be able to opt
out of local authority control.
These were outstanding schools which have taken up the government's offer to opt
out of local authority control and become independent academies.