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Gove derided for 'corporate overseer' schools plan
Labour's Hunt attacks 'aggressive free-market strategy'
Labour mocked Education Secretary Michael Gove's "failing" policies yesterday after his plans to appoint cronies to oversee free schools and academies were exposed.
Leaked Department for Education documents reveal the schools will be organised into eight regions and overseen by new "headteacher boards."
They will act as a middle tier between government and schools and be led by taxpayer-funded "chancellors" appointed by Mr Gove.
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