Tory Council to close award-winning primary – so a free school can have its land
The decision to close Sulivan does everything that Tories say they oppose when it comes to education.
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Today’s other education story: faith schools discriminating against poor pupils
New research has found a striking correlation between religious selection in schools and socio-economic segregation.
More questions for Michael Gove on free school fraud
Why didn’t the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau refer the case of Kings Science Academy to West Yorkshire police?
John Major is right – but the problem isn’t only private schools
John Major is right to talk about the dominance of ex-private school pupils in public life. The problem is bigger than that, though.
The government’s free school programme just got sinister
The more you learn about Sulivan School, the more irrational and unfair the Tory council’s proposal to close it looks.
Welsh Lib Dem leader: Free school lunches ‘Happy Meal politics’
The Lib Dem leader in Cardiff has previously free school meals as “Happy Meal politics”.
Here is what some Liberal Democrats used to think about free school meals
The Liberal Democrats have not always been so enthusiastic about free school meals.
Religious selection in state schools must end
Ending religious selection in state schools is a policy that the Labour party should support.
Look Left: ring-fencing the NHS and schools budget, CO2 emissions and intervention in Syria
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Ring-fencing the NHS and schools is no longer viable
The chancellor went on the Today programme this morning to trumpet his success in getting seven government departments to agree on their budgets for 2015-16 as part of the Spending Review that he will announce on 26 June. It is reported that they have all agreed to cuts of between 8 and 10 per cent.