Tories plan 'pioneer schools' run by charities

By Mathew Little, Third Sector Online, 29 August 2007

The Conservatives are proposing to give charities the right to set up state-funded schools in areas where existing state schools are judged to be failing.

A new policy report, due to be presented to the shadow cabinet next week, will recommend that charities and parents be encouraged to create new ‘pioneer schools’ in competition with local authority-run schools. The new schools would offer free, non-selective education and would be maintained by the state. Charities and...

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