Schools minister Andrew Adonis was forced to listen to a string of attacks after he used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to set out the main components of the Bill, a week after it was unveiled in the Queen's Speech.
In the first parliamentary debate on the new legislation, Lord Adonis said: "(The Bill) will make it easier for good-quality providers of education, including successful state schools, to replace failing schools and to establish new state schools in response to parental demand on the basis of fair all-ability admissions and fair funding."
But Liberal Democrat Baroness Walmsley said planned measures to increase the number of foundation schools would take power away from directors of children's services.
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