Free schools
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- Created on: 26-11-21 11:52
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- Free schools
- Features
- Funded by the government but aren’t run by the local council
- They have more control over how they do things
- Dont use acedemic selection processes like geammar schools
- Supporters argue that...
- Free schools create more local competition and drive-up standards
- They allow parents to have more choice in the type of education their child receives, much like parents who send their children to independent schools do.
- They also claim that free schools benefit children from all backgrounds
- Critics argue that...
- People don’t actually want Free Schools – Polling in April 2015 put public support for Conservative proposals to increase the number of Free Schools by at least 500 at 26%.
- They are not actually needed and have lead to a surplus of school places
- Free schools divert money away from existing schools
- Free schools benefit primarily middle-class parents with the time to set them up, fuelling social segregation
- Examples
- CITY GATEWAY The school was set up by the City Gateway social enterprise, as extension of the work they have been doing with the community in Tower Hamlets since 1999.
- .The school focuses on vocational education and work based learning, with the aim of helping pupils who are not thriving within mainstream and who are at risk of exclusion, gaining the qualifications and skills they need to enter employmen
- CITY GATEWAY The school was set up by the City Gateway social enterprise, as extension of the work they have been doing with the community in Tower Hamlets since 1999.
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