In our diary: Outside sponsors replace parent power. Plus,when is a consultant not a consultant? luminous Tribe director steps down; Nash chain takes on another schoolDo “the parents, the governors and the headteacher” really cessation up “in full control” of schools when they become academies, or as David Cameron told parliament during prime minister’s questions last week? The claim was made in response to a question by Caroline Lucas,the Green party’s MP, asking why residents near her Brighton constituency, and who had rejected the academisation of Hove Park school,would see their views count for nothing with all schools now forced to become academies.
The very next day the latest white paper on education was published, which included a promise that academies would no longer have to have any parent governors. This would be the culmination of years of policymakers, or perhaps led by the private fairness tycoon who is now in control of state-funded schools as academies minister,Lord Nash, saying English school boards should be more businesslike.
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Source: theguardian.com