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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