A Positive Future for Schools

Earlier this week, David Cameron and Michael Gove spoke at a rally of parents in Kirklees. These parents are frustrated at the quality of education on offer for their children are demanding change – change which is being blocked by the Labour-led council and Ed Balls in Westminster.


David and Michael spoke about the choice facing parents at this election:

If you want to carry on with nearly 400,000 children a year suspended for violence and disruption, vote for Gordon Brown.
If you are content with millions more children leaving primary school unable to read and add up properly, and leaving school without English and Maths GCSE, vote for Brown.
If you want to keep good schools rationed by house price and income, vote for Brown.
If you want politicians to have more power over schools instead of teachers running schools, vote for Brown.


But if you want to change course, vote Conservative:

We will give teachers the powers they need to keep order.
We will give heads the power to pay good teachers more.
We will let all state schools do high quality international exams now studied in top private schools but banned in state schools.
We will replace the leadership of schools with persistent serious behaviour problems, poor teaching, and children unable to read properly.
We will build a new generation of independent smaller state schools with smaller classes, funded by taxpayers but run by teachers who know the children’s names and responsible to parents – not run by politicians.

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