“The leader of the backbench Conservatives at Westminster has raised serious concerns about plans, announced in last month’s budget, to force all state schools to become academies by 2022. This is a blow to the government’s hopes of forcing the proposals on to the statute book.
In a sign of the depth of Tory unrest, Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, said the plans announced by George Osborne could lead to the creation of “new 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.
Brady, who spoke out as new data suggested the reorganisation could cost more than £1.3bn, is writing to education secretary Nicky Morgan in the hope that the proposals spelled out in the recent education white paper can be changed. He also wants reassurances from Morgan that the plans will not be rushed through parliament – suggesting that without a rethink they could trigger a backbench Tory rebellion. …”
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Talking about Tory restlessness and rebellion (shock horror), the comments on almost any recent pages on the Conservative Home site make for quite gratifying reading. Growing unhappiness with Cameron (since he came back from Europe with a dodgy deal) and Osborne particularly, also others (Johnson?, Javid, Whittingdale), What is clear is that the intra Tory rifts are getting deeper.
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