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Conservative schools plans will mean raiding budgets of existing schools
February 16, 2010 12:03 AM
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
David Laws MP with Chelmsford Lib Dem Stephen Robinson
The budgets of existing schools could be raided to fund Conservative plans to establish new schools. According to Lib Dem Shadow Schools Secretary David Laws, that is the only possible conclusion, given Conservative plans to cut the Schools budget.
Conservative spokesman Michael Gove announced plans to set up Swedish-style "free schools". David Laws commented: "These schools plans are deeply flawed both in terms of money and on the curriculum.
"Michael Gove's plan to cut the education budget means his ability to establish new schools will inevitably depend on raiding the budgets of existing schools.
"On the curriculum, Conservative plans are in even more of an incoherent muddle. They plan to impose an absurdly detailed curriculum on most state-funded schools, while allowing free schools to adopt a pick-and-mix curriculum - even if this means dropping core subjects such as British history and modern languages.
"It is impossible to justify in any logical way a system which imposes such centralized uniformity on 23,500 schools while allowing a small minority to teach whatever they like at the taxpayers' expense."
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