NASUWT: Policy exchange policies on schools should 'never see the light of day'.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
12:00 AM
Commenting on the Policy Exchange Report 'Blocking the Best: Obstacles to new, independent state schools' published today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers' union, said:
"This Report is nothing more than so-called research being used to prop up fundamentally flawed Conservative Party Policy.
"Almost every recommendation contains ideas previously articulated in speeches by Conservative education spokespersons or in the Party's draft education manifesto.
"If the Report recommendations on the workforce are implemented it will be akin to using schools as a test bed for removing the employment rights of workers in the public sector.
"These policies should never see the light of day.
"Any Party seeking the votes of those who value those who work and learn in state schools will dismiss this Report as an unacceptable way of running the education service."
ENDS
Stuart Gannon
NASUWT Press Office
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