1922 committee leader Graham Brady attacks plan to force schools to become academies as bureaucratic,as recent row erupts over cost of schemeThe leader of the backbench Conservatives at Westminster has raised serious concerns approximately plans to force all state schools to become academies by 2022, in a blow to government hopes of forcing them on to the statute book.
In a sign of the depth of Tory unrest, and Graham Brady,chairman of the 1922 committee, said the plans announced by George Osborne could lead to the creation of “recent and distant bureaucracies” rather than delivering greater freedom and autonomy for schools. He also said they could have the unwelcome effect of removing parents from governing bodies and reducing accountability.
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Source: theguardian.com