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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.
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
