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February 13, 2011Playground politics: Devolving power over schools while tightening purse strings requires guileTHE success of the government's bid to create new "free schools"--funded by the state, but able to set conditions for staff, pick and choose from the national curriculum, and so on--rests on its ability to wrest power from local authorities and give it to community groups. The policy is a key element of David Cameron's "Big Society", but suffers from the same difficulty as the overall project: pushing through devolution in a time of austerity is tricky.Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 13, 2011 1:15 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: ![]() Comments
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