UK escalates its version of charter schools = "freedom"!

[Hannah Bell]

General Election 2010: More freedom for schools, no matter who wins


All three main parties have pledged to bring in private companies, charities and parents’ groups to run schools in England in a move designed to promote competition and cut red tape.

In a sign of consensus between the parties, local councils are expected to lose a significant amount of direct control over schools as power over admissions, staff pay, buildings and the curriculum is increasingly devolved to head teachers.

Labour is committed to expanding the number of academies – independent secondary schools sponsored and run by private organisations – beyond the 200 opened in the past decade.

It also wants to accredit organisations to run “chains” of primary and secondary schools.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7687644/General-Election-2010-More-freedom-for-schools-no-matter-who-wins.html


yep, get yer "freedom" here: you get to choose which global corporate charter school franchise you send your kids to -- within the limitations of your *income* of course.


The day will come when your local school is owned by a corporation registered in Bermuda & traded on the stock market, mark my words.

Unless you're pretty well-off, of course.

[Starry Messenger]

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