Gove said: "We expect to double the number of academies currently planned. We will be on course for academies to become the norm in secondary education."
The party would allow hundreds of the best-performing comprehensives to become academies and opt out of the national curriculum. In return they will be required to partner with an underperforming school to share their innovations and practice.
Gove said: "Tony Blair became a death-bed convert to the cause of educational freedom. He set up the academy programme – a deliberate attempt to emulate the success of GM schools.
And it worked – academies used their new-found freedom to drive up standards. Since Gordon Brown took over those freedoms have been stifled and bureaucracy has crept back."
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