Parents have a right to good schools for their children, and theGovernment has a duty to act in support of parents where this right isnot being honoured. That is why we have introduced academies - good newschools to meet parental demand, particularly where standards are toolow.
Academies either replace existing weak and failing schools, or they arenew schools in areas of low standards, where successive generations ofpupils have left school at 16 with too little to show for theireducation.
Early results are encouraging. Most academies have received positiveOfsted reports, and their GCSE results are improving on average at threetimes the rate of other schools. And this is not because these academiescan cherry- pick their students: they are all-ability schools that servetheir communities fairly. They are succeeding because they bring strongleadership, and an ethos focused on achievement and aspirations, wherethese have been lacking.
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