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Friday, July 30, 2010
Campaign for State Education
NEW GOVERNMENT - NEW CHALLENGES
The Coalition Government is rushing into law an Academies Bill that threatens to create a new, unaccountable education sector and diminish the rights of parents.
The Bill will also take money from local authorities which they use to support other schools. CASE is working with sympathetic peers and MPs to amend the legislation.
Click here for our briefing.
Issue 37 of our magazine CASEnotes contains an update on the Academies Bill, background on American “charter schools” and, by way of contrast, on the Finnish education system.
CASE’s Annual Conference will be in London on 20th November. It will take forward the argument we made in the General Election campaign that “Markets are for commodities - not for children” and be an important staging point in challenging the new orthodoxy.