A report released today (11 July) by the party's Social Justice PolicyGroup proposes creating "pioneer schools", free from local authoritycontrol and able to set pay levels, to improve education standards.
The group said the schools should receive 5,500 per pupil and becontrolled by parents and charities. Parents would be free to move theirchildren to different schools, taking their funding with them, if theywere unhappy with the standard of education. In addition children indisadvantaged areas would get 500 to pay for extra tuition ormusic lessons.
But an Association of Teachers and Lecturers' spokeswoman branded thepioneer schools the "son of academies" and said giving schools freedomto set pay would "go down badly with teaching unions". However,volunteering charity CSV welcomed proposals to offer incentives to youngvolunteers.
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