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  Tory thinkers offer lesson in equality

  David Cameron's ideas team has come up with a radical new plan to make school funding fairer. Polly Curtis reports

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• Cuts to cause 'austere' future for schools

  7 Jan 2009: £45bn school rebuilding programme under threat as finance diverted to beat economic gloom

• Government launches inquiry into academy funds allegations

  28 Nov 2008:

  Multi-faith charity is accused of mismanaging contracts worth millions of pounds of taxpayers' money

• Silence in class

  Cartoon, 11 Nov 2008:

  Lines: Ros Asquith on academy school sponsors

• Pay schools extra to recruit from poorest homes, says thinktank

  28 Oct 2008:

  Funding system is a 'disorganised mess' which can penalise schools in disadvantaged areas

• Be wary of market forces in education

  28 Oct 2008:

  There is no doubt that breaking down lack of transparency and inward-looking culture has brought great benefit, says Estelle Morris

• Heads' trip to Arizona criticised

  24 Oct 2008:

  Decision to send group of London headteachers on £60,000 trip condemned as waste of public money

• Schools exploiting 'cut-price teachers'

  29 Jul 2008:

  Schools are cutting corners by employing teaching assistants as 'cut-price teachers', says retired nursery nurse

• Expensive makeover

  29 Jul 2008:

  How can schools afford to send a pupil on a vocational course costing £8,000 a year? Fran Abrams reports

• Tent protester digs in against academies

  16 Jul 2008:

  A teaching union activist is risking imprisonment for refusing to obey a judge's orders to stop his protest against plans to build a new academy school

• There's a lesson in all this

  13 Jul 2008:

  Sterility in school architecture has gone the way of the cane... Westminster, the most impressive of the new wave of academies, has space, light and exciting furniture that all contribute to a vibrant and optimistic educational culture

• 'Early stages' in review of school funding

  7 Jul 2008:

  The government has clarified its timetable for reviewing how it carves up schools funding in its response to the children, schools and families select committee

• Academies criticised for excluding 10,000

  25 Jun 2008:

  Privately-sponsored schools accused of offloading difficult pupils to neighbouring state schools

• Academies under fire for rapid rise in pupil exclusions

  24 Jun 2008:

  Teachers accuse government of encouraging academies to exclude pupils in order to improve

• Balls to that

  20 Jun 2008:

  Francis Beckett: The education secretary has outlined the 'challenge' of 'failing schools'. But would academies be any better?

• These are the teachings of wild intervention and vanity

  11 Jun 2008:

  Simon Jenkins: Ed Balls's embrace of academies forms part of a cull of community Britain. Stable schools are firmly rooted in locality

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