Keeping faith
Yesterday's news that the government has approved St Michael's Catholic School as Cornwall's first Free School generally missed this footnote to the Department for Education's press release:
"The groups will now work to make their schools a reality. This includes undertaking a statutory consultation in their local area and taking steps to recruit their school's Principal Designate. Capital funding for these projects is still to be decided."So not quite the done deal that first met the eye. St Michael's is due to open as a Free School in September next year.
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Comment number 1.
At 12th Oct 2011, backofanenvelope wrote:What we have here is a very determined secretary of state - Mr Gove; and a civil service determined to thwart him. Looks as though he is on top so far - just!
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