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Labour’s academies legislation laid the ground for free schools’ marriage moralising
Alex Hern reveals that the Telegraph’s story on Free Schools and section 28 is ten years out of date - this isn’t Gove’s nasty, it’s Blair’s.
Gove’s three priorities? Gove, Gove, Gove
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern looks at education secretary Michael Gove's speech to the Conservative party conference today.
The carpetbaggers have their eyes on free schools
We should be very suspicious Nick Clegg used the phrase “profits” in the context of free schools yesterday, writes Left Foot Forward’s Cormac Hollingsworth.
Gove’s ‘for-profit’ free schools lust overlooks warning signs from US
Michael Gove’s lack of concern that free schools may be operated by for-profit companies indicates his willingness to overlook the warning signs from the US.
Clegg’s win on ‘free schools’ start of the battle to save state education
The vetoing of Tory plans for free schools to become profit-making marks out coalition dividing lines and the ideological battle over education at the next election.
Fears government reforms could create a “big divide” not a ‘Big Society’
Two of the Big Society's key reforms, police commissioners and free schools, could tear apart our communities, writes the Runnymede Trusts’s Kamaljeet Gill.