Margaret Morrissey from parentsoutloud was on Conentry & Warwickshire show on 31st May 2011.

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Sarah Ebner, editor of the School Gate blog,
John O’Leary (Editor of The Times Good University Guide and of Policy Review magazine)
Michael Gove is in so much of a hurry to reform the education system that his ultra-ambitious Schools White Paper inevitably ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous. He has waded in where even previous Tory ministers feared to tread – notably on teacher training and aspects of the curriculum. It remains to be seen how many measures come to pass.
Some of the ideas are confused – a baccalaureate …

More than 8,000 were convicted last year over their child’s truancy – a five-fold rise in eight years.
Since tougher sanctions were introduced in 2001, nearly 41,000 parent

Richard Garner, Education Editor
Jenny Paton from Poole, in Dorset, with her partner Tim Joyce, after the landmark ruling A family has won a landmark legal ruling that council officials acted illegally in spying on them to check they were living in the right school catchment area.Jenny Paton, her partner Tim Joyce, and their three daughters, were placed under surveillance by Poole Borough Council for three weeks in 2008. Now the Investigatory Powers Tribunal – which deals with complaints against surveillance – has ruled the authority acted illegally.The ruling could have …

BBC TV News 3 July 2010 09:53 UK – Some teachers are comfortable leaving support staff in charge at times
Schools could be breaking the law by asking support staff to teach lessons when qualified teachers are absent, the National Union of Teachers has claimed.
Since September, teachers in England and Wales have only been expected to cover for colleagues on rare occasions.
But some schools are using classroom assistants to fill in, rather than more costly supply teachers, the union says.
Ministers say that if support staff deliver occasional lessons, they …

On the 21st March 2010, Margaret Morrissey from ParentsOutloud was on the The Politics Show South about Bob Howitt from Action4Kids and Cllr John Hartley from Reading Borough Council.
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