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Aim - 'Encourage competition, excellence, and innovation'
made for free at coggle.it and to free schools from the 'dead hand of the state'

Ball and Exley - policies are a mixture of something old and
something new, combining parental choice with new types of
In 2010, schools were encouraged to leave the LEA control if they schools and helping disadvantaged students
were outstanding and so can receive funding directly from the
government, with full control over their curriculum

In 2017, 68% of schools were academies Academies


In 2024, 82% were academies / free schools


Outstanding academies open to all areas


Comprehensive system is being replaced by a patchwork of Ball - fragmentation
private providers

Leading to greater inequality of opportunities

Central government can control whether or not areas are able to
Centralisation of control
become academies / free schools

This is required, as it removes power from LEA


Sees academies as an example of handing over the public
services to private capitalist services, such as education, AO3
business
In the Marxist view, the claim that privatisation and competition Hall
drive up standards is a myth used to legitimise the turning of
education private

Academies were significantly more advantaged than the average
secondary school
Had lower FSM students Machin and Vernoit

Changes in education Conserva
Funded directly by the state but set up and run by teachers,
parents, faith organisations or even businesses rather than the
LEA
Supporters say it gives greater control and power to parents if Free schools
they are unhappy with what the state is doing with education

In the UK, free schools take less disadvantaged students
(Shepherd)
Allen - 20% of schools in Sweden are free schools, and it is the
highly educated families which benefits
AO3

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