Monday 9 September 2013

FT - free schools good or bad?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d446498-15be-11e3-b519-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2eOuLpQzp

By Warwick Mansell

Liz Coatman, state schools specialist for the Good Schools Guide, says most free schools are heavily oversubscribed, with three applicants on average per place.


Laura McInerney, a former teacher who writes on free schools, believes they may be an educated gamble for parents.

Margaret Tulloch, secretary of Comprehensive Future, a school admissions lobby group, dismisses free schools as the latest example of a system whose complexity can be distracting for parents

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