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THE government’s white paper, misleadingly titled Educational Excellence Everywhere, is a complete distraction from the very real problems facing schools and parents. But it is also a huge danger to our education system, opening the door to privatisation.
Schools and parents face a chronic teacher shortage, a lack of school places, chaos around curriculum changes and primary tests and a funding crisis.
But instead of dealing with these very real issues, the government is pursuing a top-down reorganisation of education that has no basis in evidence to support it.
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