Education Authority

What do the Tories know about the state school system? What business is it of theirs?

Without powerful Local Education Authorities, there can never again be a bipartite or tripartite secondary system. That is the real reason for wanting to abolish what remains of LEAs.

Note how completely Blairite Tory policy now is. And note how, in best Blairite fashion, "the centre" (unless Michael Gove just meant "the Centre for Bad Undergraduate Rubbish, London, SW1") is now defined to mean support for the wholesale privatisation of primary schools.

For that is what City Academies are: private schools, but with their bills met by the taxpayer. But then, of course, the products, either of the VAT-exempt Tory factories, or of the London Oratory, Cardinal Bourne, Haverstock, William Ellis, Camden School for Girls (yes, Georgia Gould, that means you) and the like, think that that is what all schools are: private schools, but with their bills met by the taxpayer.