Nicky no mates: Lucy Powell says Education Secretary has “no support” for academy plans
Lucy Powell has said the Conservatives have “no support” for their education agenda as rumours intensify that Nicky…
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Cameron’s free schools concept “all but dead” says Lucy Powell
Lucy Powell has accused the Tories of “misleading parents” over their flagship free schools programme. The Shadow education…
Crowded primary schools undermine the case for yet more academies, Lucy Powell says
Tory plans for the mass conversion of schools to academies will cause the education system to “implode”, Lucy…
Ivan Lewis: Manchester does not need or want forced academy status for its schools
George Osborne’s Budget announcement that all primary and secondary schools will be forced to become academies by…
Tories’ schools spending cuts take us back to 1990s – Powell
The Tories’ attitude towards state schools is “irresponsible and reckless” with schools, Lucy Powell has said as she…
Corbyn: Tories “asset-stripping” education system
Jeremy Corbyn today accuses the Tories of taking an “ideological” approach to schools and presiding over an “asset-striping” agenda…
Labour will fight to retain parents’ voice in the schools system
Last week the Tory mask slipped and their real agenda for our schools system was revealed. Forcing schools…
It’s time for Nicky Morgan to trust local people to run schools rather than impose change from Whitehall
The Government talks a good game on devolution but that talk seems lost on the Department for…
Osborne academies’ plan “unravelling” amid £560m black hole in schools funding, Powell warns
Lucy Powell has attacked Government’s “costly and disrupting” plans to turn all schools into academies as Labour…
This ideological plan for more academies is as bad as Lansley’s NHS reforms
It is astonishing that, at a time of major cuts to school budgets, the Government would think it…
