article_snippet.sent: Concerns are raised about Labour's policy under shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt .
article_snippet.sent: The heads of some of Britain best state schools today warn of the dangers of a Labour government reversing radical education reforms.
article_snippet.sent: But 80 current and former leaders say Labour – and some senior Lib Dems – appear to be threatening to reimpose state controls.
article_snippet.sent: But The heads of some of Britain’s best state schools today expressed alarm at comments by Ed Miliband that Labour would reimpose ‘a proper local authority framework for all schools’.
article_snippet.sent: Senior Lib Dems were also accused of suggesting Senior Lib Dems no longer support freedom for acdemies, which are able to control pay, conditions and the curriculum.
article_snippet.sent: As the General Election campaign turned to education yesterday, Ed Miliband also attacked Labour yesterday for opposing the expansion of free schools – which are run by groups such as teachers, parents and charities and are outside of local authority control.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband said the opposition’s antipathy appeared to be based on a concern that ‘if we set up a good new school, everyone will want to go there’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘How can you possibly be against an excellent school setting up another excellent school?
article_snippet.sent: ’ Ed Miliband accused Labour of being ‘anti free schools’ for suggesting it wants to scrap the scheme.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband has said Labour would Labourhave a proper local authority framework for all schools
article_snippet.sent: But as school leaders we are concerned that recent statements from Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians suggest Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians might not protect all the freedoms which schools and teachers now enjoy and which are helping to drive up standards across the board.
article_snippet.sent: Though Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt said that Labour would not ‘go back to the old days of the local authority running all the schools’, Ed Miliband has said Labour would ‘have a proper local authority framework for all schools’.
article_snippet.sent: And a Liberal Democrat education spokesman told a recent FASNA conference that a Liberal Democrat education spokesman could not support the freedom for schools to vary pay and conditions or to vary the curriculum, and a Liberal Democrat education spokesman felt that schools needed local control.
article_snippet.sent: Any erosion of school freedoms through local authority or government regulation or overbearing ‘middle-tier’ structures will reduce the capacity of schools to perform well in the future.
highlights_snippet.sent: But academies warned that Labour is threatening to reimpose state controls .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Heads expressed alarm at Ed Miliband's comments on school reforms .
  