LONDON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Private companies and Christian groups lined up to take over primary and secondary schools under Britain's revamped system to make state schools independent.
The plan, outlined Tuesday, would encourage every school to set up a trust that would appoint a school's governing body, own property, set admissions policies and determine teachers' pay and conditions, The Guardian newspaper reported.
Secondary Heads Association General Secretary John Dunford said British schools need "more freedom from government interference and incessant education reform."
However, National Union of Teachers General Secretary Steve Sinnott called the plan "extraordinarily wrong-headed" and "a tangled web of responsibility rather than clear lines."
