Every parent has the right to a good school for their children - and every child has the right to a great education. We will raise the standards of the worst-performing schools so they can catch up with the best. And we will make our state education system excellent for all, reversing the trend whereby children from disadvantaged backgrounds have fallen further and further behind.
We will achieve this through the following commitments:
- Ensuring schools teach all academic subjects by ability. Children learn more effectively when taught with pupils of a similar ability. It means they can learn according to their particular aptitude, so that the brightest children can be stretched and those who are struggling given extra support.
- Strengthen teachers’ powers to instill discipline. Classrooms in which students are disruptive are environments in which no-one can learn. The balance in the classroom has to shift back in favour of the teacher - and head teachers have to have the ultimate right to exclude pupils without having their decisions overturned by an appeals panel.
- Greater emphasis on synthetic phonics. We will ensure more teachers are trained to use the effective synthetic phonics approach to teaching children to read.
- Increasing the number of good school places within the state system. We will remove the obstacles which prevent new schools being established.
- Expanding the existing school building programme. We will fund 200,000 school places in new Academies in deprived areas.
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