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Hatcher, Richard – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2012
The Labour government showed no interest in extending local democracy in the school system, in spite of a policy rhetoric of local democratic renewal. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government's localism agenda promotes the autonomy of schools from local authorities without proposing alternative forms of local democracy in the school…
Descriptors: Governance, Democracy, School Districts, Political Attitudes
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Hatcher, Richard – Educational Review, 2011
Free schools are new state-funded but privately-run schools set up under the academies legislation. Free schools represent the most overtly market-oriented policy within the Conservative-led Coalition government's school reform programme in England and have provoked intense controversy, centering on issues of pupil attainment, social equality,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Free Schools, Democracy