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David Cameron will pledge to open 153 new free schools
David Cameron is planning to announce a dramatic expansion of the controversial free schools programme on Monday by proposing a further 153 free schools be opened in the next parliament, according to a draft of his speech passed to the Guardian....
According to the draft speech, Cameron will say: “Academies and free schools are most likely to be good or outstanding,” adding “free schools do not just help the performance of their pupils, but pupils in surrounding schools”...
Significantly, the circulation list for the draft speech includes Michael Gove, the former education secretary who is now the party’s chief whip, but not Nicky Morgan, the current education secretary.
There have been repeated suggestions that Gove is still backseat-driving the Conservatives’ schools policy, even though he was asked to step aside in the last reshuffle. Gove was the architect of the free schools policy, but there is no suggestion Morgan disapproves of its thrust...
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/06/david-cameron-will-pledge-to-open-153-new-free-schools
(So Gove is still evidently the 'real' Education Secretary!)
