New Schools To Open This September Are Free
There is good news for the children of England in the next month as 24 new free schools will be opening and they are set up bu parents, faith groups and others. This has been state-funded but mostly in the 15 months that the coalition came to power, semi-independent schools have already been created. This is to drive up the standards, espcially in poorer areas according to Education Secretary Michael Gove. But there are critics who say that they will take resources and pupils from other schools and it would lead to less local accountability.
These schools will open in church halls, listed buildings and temporary classrooms, as well as in former office blocks and libraries and all of them are being refurbished. The programme for free schools was a part of the Conservatives’ flagship policies in the last election. Half the schools that will be opening by the next month have have already signed their final contracts with the government in the past few weeks but the plans and works were done in advance as well as the recruiting of children. There were 323 groups of applications in all. Two all age schools, five secondary schools and 17 primary schools will be opened. The locations are eight in London, eight in the other parts of southern England, five in the north and three in the midlands.
The schools that will be opened are the following: Aldborough E-ACT Free School Redbridge, All Saints Junior School Reading, ARK Conway Primary Academy Hammersmith & Fulham, ARK Atwood Primary Academy Westminster, Batley Grammar School Kirklees, Bradford Science Academy Bradford, Bristol Free School Bristol, Canary Wharf College Tower Hamlets, Discovery New School West Sussex, Eden Primary School Haringey, Etz Chaim Primary School Barnet, The Free School, Norwich Norfolk, Krishna-Avanti Primary School Leicester, Langley Hall Primary Academy Slough, Maharishi School, Lathom Lancashire, Moorlands School Luton, Nishkam Free School Birmingham, Priors Free School Warwickshire, Rainbow Free School Bradford, Sandbach School Cheshire, St Luke’s Church of England Primary School Camden, Stour Valley Community School Suffolk, West London Free School Hammersmith & Fulham and Woodpecker Hall Primary Academy Enfield.
Some of them are being set up by academy trusts or chains that are groups which are already behind several academies in England. Academies are quite similar to theses schools as they are funded by the government directly but they are not within the authority of it. They have more conrtol over the pay and conditions of staff than most schools. These schools are aimed to help deprived areas and the poor even though most critics think ti was set up for the middle classes.
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