Folks without children can ignore this next line, but for those of us who do have kids, I think every tool that empowers and enriches the abilities of school teachers to teach our children are without doubt a good thing.
Like Labour, his party talks of extending parents' choice and the ability of schools to respond to demand.
But James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, questioned the ability of schools to act as economic engines in a city.
"The pressures within the system are distorting the ability of schools to stay focussed on teaching to the subject rather than test," she added.
But in many ways, the employment credentials of schools' graduates is just a product of the quality of students accepted on the programme in the first place, and the ability of schools to give those students the best education.
Susan Traiman, director of education policy at the Business Roundtable, a group that represents business executives, said the challenge was to improve the ability of schools to educate students across a range of levels.
Teresa Fralish Washington Your article fails to address the issue that proponents of Teach for America gloss over: namely, the ability of schools to hire teachers at low pay who, having burnished their résumés, will presumably go on to lucrative jobs in other areas.
The DfE said the understanding of extremism and way the ability of schools to respond to it is monitored had "advanced hugely in the past few years".
"Without a minimum requirement, the danger is that short-term expediency could jeopardise the ability of schools to deliver sport for future generations," he said.
In the run-up to the programme starting, there had been concerns about the ability of schools to provide the amount of food needed and whether kitchens and catering contractors could cope.
