Profit for free schools? Conservative view

http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2013/11/the-case-for-free-school-co-operatives-is-set-out-by-stevebakermp.html 

From Conservative Home:

"Michael Gove isn’t keen on state schools being allowed to make a profit, but Ryan Shorthouse of Bright Blue has previously championed the idea – and, now, so has Steve Baker, my excellent successor as Conservative MP in Wycombe, though in a particular form. He has told the Daily Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10456218/Parents-could-run-State-schools-for-profit-under-Tory-plan.html) that he would like to see groups of parents being able to run free schools as co-operatives. “I am greatly attracted by the idea of parents forming co-operatives and controlling free schools and budgets,” he said. “Why shouldn’t parents form cooperatives to run schools, make a profit then pay out some of that money in dividends and invest the rest in the school?”