Tories: Labour committing 'education vandalism'

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Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott has accused Labour of “education vandalism” over its Schools Bill. She claimed the reforms undermine two decades of cross-party consensus and warned they threaten academy freedoms which she says helped raise standards in reading and maths.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Labour are committing education vandalism. They're taking a wrecking ball to our

00:04school system through the Schools Bill which is currently going through the

00:07House of Commons. This undermines two decades of consensus on what improves

00:12schools, a consensus which has led to us having in England children being the best

00:17at reading and maths in the Western world. So where it comes to their school

00:21reforms what they need to do is abandon them, enable academies to have the

00:26freedoms which have led to us soaring up international league tables.

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