Teachers attack Gordon Brown's 'parent power' plan for schools [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 23 February 2010
Teachers' leaders attacked plans set out by Gordon Brown today giving parents the power to demand regime change in struggling schools.
Parents will be given the power to complain to their local council and trigger a ballot of all parents in the school if they are unhappy with the standard of education their children are receiving.
Large education providers and coalitions of private schools, which have achieved good results, will be able to take over the running of those in the state sector that are failing.
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