Gove gives up-we hope! 19.07.2010.

19th July. 2010.

Fifty State schools, rather than the hundreds anticipated by Michael Gove, the Conservative Education Secretary, are on track to becoming 'Academies'. Gove has been rushing through legislation to 'allow' schools to become academies, which would be funded by a blend of public money (yours and mine) religious and charitable funding, parent's organisations and business organisations. These 'new' schools would parasitise the perfectly good 'old ' ones, taking their buildings, their teaching staff and their pupils.
Gove wrote begging letters to Heads of schools in May. Today, teaching unions will lobby Parliament in protest at his plans, which would involve halting the Building For Schools prgramme started by New Labour to rebuild 715 schools.

Gove's Cuckoo pupil
plans may not yet be hatched as
Heads spot intrusion.

Mickey Mouse schools
may flop as Gove is
given Educated miss.