New Schools Network - Revision history

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Tamasin Cave at 14:03, 25 July 2016

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Tamasin Cave at 13:12, 2 September 2015

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Tamasin Cave: /* People */

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People

Tamasin Cave: /* Secret donors supporting the free school agenda */

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Secret donors supporting the free school agenda

Tamasin Cave at 13:10, 2 September 2015

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Tamasin Cave: /* A lobbying vehicle for government */

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A lobbying vehicle for government

Tamasin Cave: /* Department for Education grant */

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Department for Education grant

Tamasin Cave: /* Learning from US education reformers */

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Learning from US education reformers

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 The '''New Schools Network''' is a charity set up in 2009 to drive the growth of free schools in England.
-The ''Guardian''s Tom Clark suggested that the role offered to the New Schools Network 'potentially puts it in a position of influence over the new generation of schools, since it will be advising parents and teachers as they fill out the forms in which they must specify their educational aims'.<ref>Tom Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/michael-gove-new-schools-transparency New Schools Network lacks transparency], The Guardian, 6 July 2010.</ref>
+The ''Guardian'''s Tom Clark suggested that the role offered to the New Schools Network 'potentially puts it in a position of influence over the new generation of schools, since it will be advising parents and teachers as they fill out the forms in which they must specify their educational aims'.<ref>Tom Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/michael-gove-new-schools-transparency New Schools Network lacks transparency], The Guardian, 6 July 2010.</ref>
 ==Learning from US education reformers==

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	The ''Guardian''s Tom Clark suggested that the role offered to the New Schools Network 'potentially puts it in a position of influence over the new generation of schools, since it will be advising parents and teachers as they fill out the forms in which they must specify their educational aims'.<ref>Tom Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/michael-gove-new-schools-transparency New Schools Network lacks transparency], The Guardian, 6 July 2010.</ref>		The ''Guardian''s Tom Clark suggested that the role offered to the New Schools Network 'potentially puts it in a position of influence over the new generation of schools, since it will be advising parents and teachers as they fill out the forms in which they must specify their educational aims'.<ref>Tom Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/michael-gove-new-schools-transparency New Schools Network lacks transparency], The Guardian, 6 July 2010.</ref>

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 ===ex-employees===
 *[[Rachel Wolf]] - former director, and until her departure in 2013, the UK's chief free school lobbyist.<ref>[http://www.newschoolsnetwork.org/about-us/team About Us - Our Team], New Schools Network, accessed 16 August 2010.</ref>Wolf remained at the helm until 2013, when she returned to New York to work with [[Joel Klein]] at the new education arm of Murdoch’s [[News Corp]], [[Amplify]].
 ===Trustees===
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 *[[Barbara Harrison]]
 *Sir [[Bruce Liddington]]<ref>[http://www.newschoolsnetwork.org/about-us/team About Us - Our Team], New Schools Network, accessed 16 August 2010.</ref>
 ===Advisers===
 *Professor [[Julian Le Grand]]

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 ==Secret donors supporting the free school agenda==
 As well as government support, the Network also receives funding from the private sector. It refuses to disclose its backers, though: ‘We have donors,’ Wolf said, ‘who wish to remain anonymous.’
 ==Potential conflicts of interest==

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		+	The ''Guardian''s Tom Clark suggested that the role offered to the New Schools Network 'potentially puts it in a position of influence over the new generation of schools, since it will be advising parents and teachers as they fill out the forms in which they must specify their educational aims'.<ref>Tom Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/michael-gove-new-schools-transparency New Schools Network lacks transparency], The Guardian, 6 July 2010.</ref>

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 And in June 2010, to get the charity off the ground, the Network was also controversially handed half a million pounds by Gove’s department.<ref>[http://www.education.gov.uk/news/press-notices-new/freeschools Gove: ‘Free Schools will enable excellent teachers to create new schools and improve standards for all children.’], Department for Education, 18 June 2010.</ref> Within weeks of Gove becoming Education Secretary, Cummings was urging officials to stump up the funds without delay: ‘Labour has handed hundreds of millions to leftie orgs if u guys cant navigate this thro the bureauc then not a chance of any new schools starting!!’ he wrote.
 With the shared personnel and government support, the New Schools Network feels like an extension of Gove’s department. [[Spectator]] editor [[Fraser Nelson]] admitted Gove uses it to further his agenda.
 ==Secret donors supporting the free school agenda==

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 The ''Liberal Conspiracy'' blog noted in November 2009 that:
 ::Of the organisation’s nine listed trustees and advisers, six have a direct interest in diferrent elements of the government’s existing academies programme. Four – Sir Bruce Liddington (EACT) , Baroness Sally Morgan, Amanda Spielman (Both [[Ark]] Schools) and Christine Homer (David Ross Foundation/Havelock Academy) – are directly involved in organisations that are operating/opening academy schools. Spielman and Homer are both trustees of the New School Network, Liddington and Morgan are listed as advisers.<ref>Unity, [http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/11/10/more-tory-support-for-occult-society-schools/ Tory Michael Gove offers support for controversial school programme], Liberal Conspiracy, 10 November 2009.</ref>
 ==People==

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 ==Learning from US education reformers==
-The impetus for the New Schools Network was a fact-finding trip to New York by former Conservative Party education advisor, Rachel Wolf.<ref>Sian Griffiths, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7034772.ece Me and my 350 schools], ''Sunday Times'', 21 February 2010.</ref> Her mission for the Party in 2008 was to study the city’s charter school reforms. She took inspiration from [[Joel Klein]] and was keen to learn from his experience, asking for advice on ‘convincing’ arguments to persuade the public and journalists of the case for privately run schools. Klein declined an offer from Wolf to be on the Network’s council. Instead [[James Merriman]] of the [[New York Charter School Center]] became an adviser to his British counterparts.
+The impetus for the New Schools Network was a fact-finding trip to New York by former Conservative Party education advisor, [[Rachel Wolf]].<ref>Sian Griffiths, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7034772.ece Me and my 350 schools], ''Sunday Times'', 21 February 2010.</ref> Her mission for the Party in 2008 was to study the city’s charter school reforms. She took inspiration from [[Joel Klein]] and was keen to learn from his experience, asking for advice on ‘convincing’ arguments to persuade the public and journalists of the case for privately run schools. Klein declined an offer from Wolf to be on the Network’s council. Instead [[James Merriman]] of the [[New York Charter School Center]] became an adviser to his British counterparts.
 The New Schools Network is similar in function to the [[New York City Charter School Center]]: to privately lobby, publicly campaign, but also to offer practical help to new school providers.

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-The [[New Schools Network]] is a charity devoted to promoting the creation of maintained charitable schools.<ref>[http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1132122&SubsidiaryNumber=0 NEW SCHOOLS NETWORK], Charity Framework, Register of Charities, Charity Commission, accessed 16 August 2010.</ref>
+The [[New Schools Network]] is a charity set up in 2009 to drive the growth of free schools in England.
-The ''Independent'''s Hilary Wilce offered the following pen-portrait of the New School Network, in a November 2009 profile of its director, Rachel Wolf:
+==Learning from US education reformers==
-::The New Schools Network is modelled on a similar advice centre in New York, and has [[Geoffrey Owen]], a former Financial Times editor, as its chair, and [[Bruce Liddington]], the former schools commissioner for England, and [[Julian Le Grand]], professor of social policy at the [[London School of Economics]], among its trustees. She declines to name her financial backers, saying only that they are "a relatively small number of individuals who have a long-standing interest in supporting education projects, particularly the academy programme."<ref>Hilary Wilce, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/time-for-change-how-a-young-woman-plans-to-shake-up-the-school-system-1818636.html Time for change: How a young woman plans to shake up the school system], Independent, 12 November 2009.</ref>
+The impetus for the New Schools Network was a fact-finding trip to New York by former Conservative Party education advisor, Rachel Wolf.<ref>Sian Griffiths, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7034772.ece Me and my 350 schools], ''Sunday Times'', 21 February 2010.</ref> Her mission for the Party in 2008 was to study the city’s charter school reforms. She took inspiration from [[Joel Klein]] and was keen to learn from his experience, asking for advice on ‘convincing’ arguments to persuade the public and journalists of the case for privately run schools. Klein declined an offer from Wolf to be on the Network’s council. Instead [[James Merriman]] of the [[New York Charter School Center]] became an adviser to his British counterparts.
-==Origins==
+The New Schools Network is similar in function to the [[New York City Charter School Center]]: to privately lobby, publicly campaign, but also to offer practical help to new school providers.
-==Academies Lobby==
+==A lobbying vehicle for government==
 The ''Liberal Conspiracy'' blog noted in November 2009 that:
 ::Of the organisation’s nine listed trustees and advisers, six have a direct interest in diferrent elements of the government’s existing academies programme. Four – Sir Bruce Liddington (EACT) , Baroness Sally Morgan, Amanda Spielman (Both [[Ark]] Schools) and Christine Homer (David Ross Foundation/Havelock Academy) – are directly involved in organisations that are operating/opening academy schools. Spielman and Homer are both trustees of the New School Network, Liddington and Morgan are listed as advisers.<ref>Unity, [http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/11/10/more-tory-support-for-occult-society-schools/ Tory Michael Gove offers support for controversial school programme], Liberal Conspiracy, 10 November 2009.</ref>
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 The ''Guardian'''s Tom Clark suggested that the role offered to the New Schools Network " potentially puts it in a position of influence over the new generation of schools, since it will be advising parents and teachers as they fill out the forms in which they must specify their educational aims."<ref>Tom Clark, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/michael-gove-new-schools-transparency New Schools Network lacks transparency], The Guardian, 6 July 2010.</ref>
 ==People==
 *[[Natalie Evans]] - Chief Operating Officer.<ref>[http://www.newschoolsnetwork.org/about-us/team About Us - Our Team], New Schools Network, accessed 9 June 2011.</ref> Previously deputy director of [[Policy Exchange]] until April 2011. <ref> [http://www.publicaffairsnews.com/no_cache/home/think-tank-news/news-detail/newsarticle/policy-exchange-names-former-tory-election-candidate-as-new-deputy-director/45/ Policy Exchange names former Tory election candidate as new deputy director], Public Affairs News, 7 April 2011, accessed 9 June 2011 </ref>
 ===Trustees===
 *Sir [[Geoffrey Owen]]
 *[[Theodore Agnew]]