What “Free Schools” mean
24 free schools have opened in the UK and many more are planned to open next September. Free Schools, after academies, are the second bow in the government’s plans to privatise education, under the guises of giving parents greater “choice”. Further expansion will have extremely damaging consequences for comprehensive state education. So far there has been less resistance to free schools then academies. This is partly because you cannot have a fight from within in a school that doesn’t exist. The free schools agenda offers a certain style of education aimed at niche audiences, with no public...