Modest or watered down initiatives (city academies, foundation hospitals) were trotted out as demonstrations of the government's unflinching radicalism.As usual, there was not much wrong with the prime minister's analysis.
Under the current structure, academies, foundation, voluntary aided and foundation special schools have the power to set their own term dates, while local authorities are responsible for setting term dates for community and voluntary controlled schools.
Parents are demanding that the principal, Mark Yearsley, and Peter Noble, the chief executive running the academy's foundation, step down.
While Corbyn rebelled over academy conversion, foundation hospitals, the Iraq war, tuition fees and detention measures, Blairite MPs have offered their own warped form of 'principled rebellion' – airing their anti-Corbyn views in the press and decimating their party.
"I have other priorities in my life," she said, and she listed them: a golf academy, a foundation, golf-course design projects (she is working on her fifth course, with two more planned), corporate relationships, clothing lines and hosting golf tournaments.
There are no league tables, no specialist schools, no academies or foundation schools.
Academy schools and foundation trust hospitals were merely two examples.
It will open up the system to new providers and new partners, allow greater parental choice, expand foundation, academy and extended schools.
He canvassed the idea of reproducing the model of academy schools and foundation hospitals, giving prisons more autonomy to allow good practice to surface.
Out went academy schools and foundation hospitals, league tables and testing – but with only a few exceptions – little positive in the way of alternatives were put in their place.
She is instead involved in more ventures than ever, with a golf academy, a charitable foundation, a clothing line, a wine label, a fragrance and an international golf course design business.
