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Eis um excerto do acordo de coligação/programa de governo, sobre o sistema educativo (eis como é possível pensar que políticas liberais temperadas de realismo podem melhor resolver os problemas sociais do que políticas socialistas superficiais, populistas e desnorteadas, e isto pugnando por justiça social sem atentar contra a liberdade individual):
• We will promote the reform of schools in order to ensure that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; that all schools have greater freedom over the curriculum; and that all schools are held properly to account.
• We will fund a significant premium for disadvantaged pupils from outside the schools budget by reductions in spending elsewhere.
• We will give parents, teachers, charities and local communities the chance to set up new schools, as part of our plans to allow new providers to enter the state school system in response to parental demand.
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• We will reform the existing rigid national pay and conditions rules to give schools greater freedoms to pay good teachers more and deal with poor performance.
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• We will seek to attract more top science and maths graduates to be teachers.
• We will publish performance data on educational providers, as well as past exam papers.
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• We will give heads and teachers the powers they need to ensure discipline in the classroom and promote good behaviour.
• We believe the most vulnerable children deserve the very highest quality of care. We will improve diagnostic assessment for schoolchildren, prevent the unnecessary closure of special schools, and remove the bias towards inclusion.
• We will improve the quality of vocational education, including increasing flexibility for 14–19 year olds and creating new Technical Academies as part of our plans to diversify schools provision.
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