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Posted on 27th June 2008

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Sir Simon Milton, head of the Local Government Association (LGA), has stated that private organisations should run state schools in the future, rather than the local council.

Parent organisations and private firms would take charge of local schools, with Sir Simon suggested that this idea would give parents more choice over the child's education.

"My view, and the LGA's view, is that councils are not meant to run schools any more," he told the Times, stating: "The future is to have different types of school to ensure there is real parental choice."

Furthermore, pay scales would be changed to reward the highest-performing staff and recruit the top headteachers.

However, such a move could lower the standards of education in a state school, John Bangs from the National Union of Teachers told the paper.

Parents interested in taking their children to private schools may be interested to know that Alcuin School in Leeds is the latest independent school to receive high praise form inspectors, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported. ADNFCR-921-ID-18659606-ADNFCR