The agenda was launched last year in the white paper Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future and proposes initiatives such as producing report cards for parents on school performance and more self-evaluation by schools.
But in its latest report on school accountability the Children, Schools and Families select committee warns that the agenda, "signals even greater complexity in an already overly complex system of school accountability and improvement initiatives".
The report states: "There is a real danger that schools may become overwhelmed by the intricacies of the proposed reforms.
"We believe that the government should revisit the plans set out in its 21st Century Schools white paper and simplify considerably the accountability framework and improvement strategies it proposes."
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