Resistance IS Futile. We Are Ed Balls.

Local authorities will be told to take stronger action to drive up standards in the failing institutions, including issuing warning notices, sending in expert advisers and paving the way for schools to become academies.
This is cretinous.
Find out how and why the schools are deemed to be failing. Find out if they actually are failing and then ask those involved what they want to see happen. Chances of this ever happening...

An Education Bill in this week Queen's Speech - which outlines the Government's legislative programme - will also give stronger powers to the Schools Secretary to intervene in future cases where schools badly underperform.
Stronger powers. For crying out loud he already has far too much?

The Bill will make it easier for offending institutions to be taken into partnership with successful schools, run by outside education providers or even, in extreme cases, closed down by order of ministers.
Aha!
And there it is. All the schools that are deemed to be failing are only failing because the people who are running them are crap. Sadly it's Eduardo and his gargantuan department that is crap at running things.

Local authorities will be bound by law to test "parental satisfaction" with schools - including having to conduct an annual survey asking parents for their views, and publishing an action plan to tackle problems.
You have to laugh don't you.
Bound by law my left foot. They already have public consultations that are totally ignored by the powers that be. Does anyone seriously believe Moira would act on findings from parents that run contrary to her view of things?
And anyway ALL academies are placed beyond Local Authority control and Ed is hell bent on bringing more into reality so what will the Local Authority be left with exactly?

The Bill will also provide "pupil guarantees" - designed to enshrine discipline, a balanced curriculum and sport in a school's ethos - and new rights for parents.
Here we see the creeping state stasi personified by Balls. I as a parent should have but one right in this democracy, if it is really a democracy, and that right is to bring up and educate my children as I see fit.

The legislation will, moreover, guarantee in law that academies, state schools managed by outside "sponsors" with day-to-day independence from local authority control, can have charitable status.
And here is the real point of all this. Taking Academies totally out of the grasp of Local Authorities or the public and removing all manner of public accountability so they can get on with indoctrinating their charges in the Academy or Nu Labour socially engineered way of life where everything the state says is true.
Personally I cannot understand the bit about charitable status as they are all already charities or are about to become one. Just nip over to the Charities commission web site and see for yourselves. It a good old fashioned tax avoidance scam and that's all it is.

In an article for The Sunday Telegraph Mr Balls defends his interventionist policies, accuses some local authorities of "dragging their feet" over underperforming schools, and draws up a fresh dividing line with his Tory opposite number, Michael Gove.

Mr Gove, the shadow schools secretary, plans a "Swedish-style" system of independently run, state-funded schools which would allow parents, charities and other bodies to open up new institutions free from local authority control.

Mr Balls writes: "To the small number of areas where local councils are dragging their feet, my message is clear: there is no longer any excuse for inaction. So this week I am demanding action in the 50 of the 270 schools below our benchmark where turnaround plans - like an academy or a formal partnership with a high-performing local school - have still not been agreed."
Ooh he is scary and powerful isn't he?
He demands action. Like all dictators it's all about him and his power. What if there are no high performing local schools cretin. Here in Barrow there aren't any. There's one in Dalton so do Walney, St Bernards and the Academy all partner with Dowdales because they know what they are doing?
Of course not but it is precisely this scenario this idiot is proposing.

A source close to Mr Balls said the government would "not hesitate" to put pressure on local authorities to do more to allow schools to become academies. Ministers have 28 academy "slots" left for 2010.
The closest 'source' to Balls is his wife who is bizarrely called Cooper so presumably it's her the Telegraph is referring to. What she has to do with education is anyone's guess.
Sad to see another 28 communities being misled into following the Academy Religion. Lets hope that at least one of them has the balls to stand up to it's Ayatollah Ed Balls.

The Education Bill will promote the idea of "21st century schools" - with an emphasis on partnerships between institutions and greater flexibility on how individual budgets are spent. Spin and gobbledegook
that NuLabour love to spout and we are all sick to death of reading unless you are a Labour party member. Although on reflection even the Labour Party members must have seen through the Nu Labour sham by now. Perhaps not as the local crowd have enshrined a Brown sycophant as their prospective Labour Party candidate

It will also enact curriculum reforms in a bid to tailor learning to the needs of future employers and allow for the introduction of new "school report card" which will grade every school in the country.
Finally we get to Nu Labours greatest gift to the nation the building of a new 'clone army' of workers to make sure the trough is deep enough for all of our elected members to feed from for many a long year.

Ye gods I sincerely hope Ed & Yvette Balls lose their seats at the next election. They are hell bent on destroying the individual and ensuring the state is the cradle to grave guardian for millions of Britons.