Tag: Free Schools

Katharine Birbalsingh, the head of one of Britain's best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a meeting where Phillipson exposed her ignorance of her own bill.

Why has Bridget Phillipson got the free schools programme in her sites? After all, it was the Tories’ most successful education policy, creating over 650 great schools quickly and cheaply. Two reasons: revenge and embarrassment.