The Education Bill takes forward the legislative proposals in the Schools White Paper, The Importance of Teaching, which according to government, aims to free schools from centralised bureaucracy and allow teachers and school leaders to drive improvement.
But teaching unions have warned that the bill will give too much power to ministers and risks breaking up the education system.
General Secretary of teaching union Voice Philip Parkin said: "The bill is chaotic and contradictory – a jumble of competing policies, a mix of decentralisation and centralisation, raising standards and lowering them, that will lead to the fragmentation of our education system and undermine teaching as a profession by giving more power to ministers.
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