1. Make all schools academies (budget)
2. Habnd over all the buildings, land and assets to ptivate companies for zero cost.
3. Get rid of parent governors: bring in business people and financial “experts” instead.
“Parent governors are to be dropped from all school governing bodies England in favour of professionals with the “right skills”, prompting warnings from unions that parents will be sidelined in the running of schools.
Until now, places have been reserved for elected parents on school governing bodies, but under plans outlined by education secretary Nicky Morgan in the white paper published on Thursday those roles will now be abolished.
The new emphasis will be on the skills – for example in business or finance – that an individual brings to a governing body, rather than their value as a stakeholder, such as a parent with children in the school.”
4. De-skill teaching staff:
“In another key development, education secretary Nicky Morgan announced a radical shakeup of teacher qualifications, scrapping qualified teacher status (QTS) and introducing a more open-ended system of accreditation.
Currently, new teachers in England complete their training and then spend a year in the classroom before being awarded QTS. Ministers want a more challenging accreditation, based on a teacher’s performance in the classroom and judged by their headteacher and another senior school leader.
Some teachers will qualify quickly, but others could take years to be approved, rather like learner drivers attempting to pass a driving test. One consequence is that it will be easier for schools to hire experts, including scientists and historians who have not been through official teacher training, and prepare them for accreditation.”
East Devon Watch 
I hate to say it, but the “scam” – sneaking through policies without a proper explanation of what they really are, what impact they will have and why they are a good idea – appears now to be standard operating procedure in both central government and local government.
This Academy School “scam” has the same MO to the LEP Devolution “scam” – and is similar in nature to the Knowle energy costs “scam”, the Exmouth sea-front “scam” etc. where the real agendas are kept secret – avoiding realistic evaluation of the proposals and preventing any form of effective arguments against them.
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