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E-Act – the academy trust that’s gaming the system
If you want schools to be committed to public education, they have to be publicly owned, says SOLOMON HUGHES
FAILING: Teachers walk out of Willenhall E-Act Academy, the troubled Walsall school where Ofsted inspectors were pelted with food, over safety fears in 2017

ONE of the key arguments of “New Labour” was that ownership of public services didn’t matter.

Tony Blair spent a lot of political energy getting rid of the pro-nationalisation Clause IV of Labour’s constitution.

He argued that the state did not need to own public services. In fact, new market and quasi-market-driven providers would introduce “innovation.” The public interest could be maintained by contracts, targets, inspections and league tables.

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