Academy launched by Labour plans expansion with free school

company headed by former Ofsted chief land to investors that Michael Gove said the changes will offer a real alternative

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private education by a former head of Ofsted has told investors that the expansion of the coalition of the creation of academies and free schools will create more opportunities for businesses private make money.

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Wey statement to potential investors said that the government's plans "will create more opportunities for private sector companies to manage and implement the public schools at all levels."

also says it can provide a better education for low-cost low-performing schools, as it has identified "significant savings" in secondary schools' existing financial models.

Wey education, which is led by former president of the Ofsted Zenna Atkins, intends to "play an important role as a provider of outsourced services to public school. .. take control of all aspects of daily functioning of these schools. "

While private schools can not run for profit, they can outsource the management of private schools for profit.

The government received 281 applications for free school opened in September 2012. These include a proposal for Everton FC to open a school that use sport to attract children at risk of exclusion.

his speech to the study center for exchange rate policy in London on Monday, Education Secretary Michael Gove said: "Even when there are places in local schools, which are not necessarily the kind places in schools parents are happy. with a choice between two things that do not want is not a free choice in all schools offer a real alternative -. and have the freedom to be different "

as academies, independent schools can set aside the national curriculum and teachers' salaries vary and conditions. Many seek to extend the time for teachers to give children a school day longer.

Gove was joined in the discourse of Michael Wilshaw, head of the Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, east London, which offers a school Overflow freedom to respond to the request of parents . Wilshaw said: "We turn away more than 1,000 children each year will be a two Mossbourne in the south of the city, where the supply is not as good, offering a broad and balanced Our goal is that 70% will the .. High School English. "

• free schools were the most important part of the "Great Society" the idea of ??Cameron, encouraging parents and teachers to create their own schools. But earlier this year the rules were tightened enforcement in a way that makes it more difficult for community groups.
• detailed financial proposals must now be presented in the original application, before the groups are eligible to receive grants to assist in planning.

critics seized on the details of the declaration of Wey of education as an indication that instead of empowering parents, schools provide free public education to be privatized. Mary Boustead, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: "This is about the private sector and reaped the benefits and active schools, using tax dollars to education the public. "

Atkins, Executive Director of Education Wey, said companies have to run in the academies and free schools to be held to account for student performance, which means that not only could reduce costs without the risk of losing business. She said: "Half the children fail to get five good GCSEs including English and maths when you have a state sector in this country who could not do that, I really think that the profit motive is an error .. "

However, Gove's speech Monday was followed by a number of parent and teacher groups free.
Kerstyn Comley, Thea parent involved in a proposal for the school free of Wapping, East London, said: "There is a shortage of places around the city, the year 2014 will be 240 positions short .. We decided we had to do something about a group of parents. "

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