A new research report finds that just one-third of established free schools have adopted innovative approaches to teaching and learning and only one in five have had local parents involved since inception.
The report – published by the Sutton Trust and the National Foundation for Educational Research – has been cited by opponents as evidence of the failure of the free schools programme.
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said: “Free schools add nothing to the school system in England but instead have, in many cases, undermined existing schools where they have been established in areas without basic need for new school places.”
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