Welcome focus on knowledge and professional autonomy but making the curriculum compulsory for all schools reduces innovation by design
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The Times recognise that "Free schools work"
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New Schools Network research quoted in powerful article about free school projects
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Free schools outperform other state funded schools by 3 percentage points
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Free schools outperform other state-funded schools by 6 percentage points
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Pupils have higher attendance, higher attainment and more likely to take A levels
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If the Government really wants excellence for every child, it would do well to rethink this much-criticised piece of legislation, says the director of the New Schools Network
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Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill's foreseeable consequences - and its unintended ones
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Ministers are giving local authorities bigger control in setting pupil numbers at free schools and academies as part of sweeping curbs on academy freedoms
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The new director of the New Schools Network outlines why she hopes the government reverses course on the efforts to curtail academy freedoms.
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The New Schools Network has appointed an ex-Downing Street and DfE special adviser as its director to fight for academy freedoms and free schools.
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Her first order of business is to try to get the bill amended. She believes the whole academies section should be stripped from it. It follows widespread criticism of the proposals.
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Former Government advisor warns Labour's controversial curbs on academy schools will 'turn back the clock' on educational standards
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