Fantastic news that the coalition is giving priority to education reform, with an Academies Bill in the Queen's Speech. This will be followed by an Education and Children's Bill in the autumn.
In today's report in the Sunday Telegraph containing details of the Speech it says the second of these Bills "could be the vehicle for [Michael Gove's] much-anticipated 'free schools' drive to allow different groups, including parents, to start and run state schools". Actually, I suspect the second Bill will deal with how the much ballyhooed "pupil premium" will be distributed rather than free schools, not least because the "drive" to set up free schools doesn't require a legislative "vehicle". (To read more, click here.)
