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Profit-making Free Schools: Unlocking the Potential of England's Proprietorial Schools Sector

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In this groundbreaking report, James Croft argues that the crisis of school places can only be met by giving true freedom to Free Schools and allowing profit-making schools to operate within the Free Schools programme. In his study of profit-making school outcomes, he shows that schools charging fees on a par with the average state expenditure per pupil equal or exceed the performance of average state schools. As the report shows, unlocking the power of profit within the Free Schools programme would be a revolution in schooling in England.

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