The Church's chief education officer, Canon John Hall, said he wanted totake advantage of the education white paper, which encourages allschools to become self-governing trusts. Trust schools will have thepower to vary the curriculum and to set their own admissionspolicies.
"The choice whether to establish such a trust will be for each diocese,"he explained. "Personally, I believe strongly in the value of a Churchof England education and would like to see significant numbers."
Private education companies are also keen to enter the new educationmarket envisaged by the white paper.
GEMS, a company which runs 60 low-cost independent schools, said it wasdiscussing the creation of a charitable arm to allowing it to enter the"new state schools market".
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