Press Release | Monday, January 12, 2015 Galloway calls for Bradford Challenge to meet educational failings Bradford needs urgent measures to deal with its education failures, George Galloway said today, Which is why I am launching the Bradford Challenge later this month. The city has some of the worst school results in the country - seventh bottom out of 150 local authorities for secondary schools, according to the latest Ofsted report, while more than half of secondary students and a quarter of primary pupils in the district are studying at schools judged to be not good enough. This is an abysmal result for parents and pupils and its simply intolerable. Its the same year after year. We keep bumping along the bottom educationally, the MP continued, and what we need is a radical improvement. And now. We keep getting reassuring words and promises from the council and education officials but these are empty ones. Families in this city want results, not platitudes. Galloway has set up a public meeting called The Bradford Challenge: make our schools better which will take place in the Princes ballroom of the Midland Hotel at 7pm on Friday, January 30. Two of the principal speakers are John Beighton and John Bayley who were involved in the London Challenge, which transformed the capitals schools through the London Challenge. I keep hearing the argument that its bad in Bradford because the demographics are difficult, that for many kids English is a second language, Galloway went on. But Tower Hamlets in East London has the same demographics as here and its schools are now among the very best, largely because of the London Challenge. That can happen here if we can bring the expertise and resources to bear and deal with the vested interests who have been content to preside over failure. The meeting will be open to the public. Im sure that concerned parents, governors, teachers and specialists will want to come along to express their concerns, hopes and ideas, the MP said. Its open to all. This wont be just a talking shop, Im determined it will be transformational.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:13:56 +0000
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