Free schools and accountability
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 I was disappointed to hear Rachel Wolf, of the New Schools Network, talking in what sounded like fairly ideological terms about “accountability” on the Today programme yesterday. Ms Wolf was being put on the spot about the ability of free schools, which the New Schools Network promotes, to employ teachers who lack Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). It was a brief interview, with frequent interruptions, but I think the thrust of her argument was fairly clear. First, she said, schools needed the flexibility to decide whom to recruit. I’m not going to discuss that point directly here. But second, she seemed to beRead More →