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Activists demand parents have a say in academy switches
PARENTS should have the right to vote on whether their children’s schools are converted into academies, campaigners demanded last night.
Progressive MPs joined parents and teachers opposed to school privatisation in Parliament to discuss the Tory government’s new Education Bill.
They met after the Bill, which includes new powers that would stop parents objecting to an academy conversion, received its second reading.
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