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More than meets the eye with the New Schools Network
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
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SUPPORTERS of the free schools and academy programmes pretend this handover of Department for Education cash and resources to a bunch of businessmen, conservative and religious ideologues is some kind of grassroots social movement driven by “charitable” impulses.

But look at the accounts one of the key “charities” involved, the New Schools Network, and it is obviously all a government-funded front pretending to be from the “grassroots.”

The New Schools Network was founded in 2009 by Tory activists to promote Conservative education policy. From 2011 on it started getting government grants from the Department for Education. The New Schools Network was paid to promote academies and free schools. 

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