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February 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Daniel Miller
Last updated at 11:39 PM on 19th February 2012
A council which spent £157m rebranding its schools as ‘centres of learning’ and renaming teachers ‘progress leaders’ has slumped to the bottom of the national league tables.
The huge sum was spent on seven new centres in Knowsley, Merseyside, under Labour’s ambitious Building Schools For The Future Scheme.
The project, which was billed ‘ripping up the rulebook’, involved replacing classrooms with ‘democratised’ spaces called ‘homebases’ and ‘warehouses’.
Failure: The £24 million Christ the King Catholic and Church of England
Centre for Learning was earmarked for closure after it emerged that
almost 400 of its 900 places were empty
Knowsley hoped the project would lift it off the bottom of the national league tables, but after a small improvement, results came crashing back down.
Three years after the centres have opened, four have received critical Ofsted reports with just 40.8 per cent of GCSE students achieveing five or more passes including English and Maths at Grade C or above – the lowest figure in England.
And a paltry three per cent managed to achieve the government’s baccalaureate of good grades in five core academic subjects.
One of the new establishments, the £24 million Christ the King Catholic and Church of England Centre for Learning, opened by the then School’s Secretary Ed Balls was earmarked for closure after it emerged that almost 400 of its 900 places are empty.
Knowsley council’s Director of Children and Family Services Damian Allen, blamed the failure on parents choosing to send their children to schools outside the area
However it has been given a reprieve after the Council’s Director of Children and Family Services Damian Allen, blames its failure on parents choosing to send their children to schools outside the area.
Knowsley council boasted how the new centres would serve the community as a ‘hub for learning’ and would not be restricted to school hours.
But during half-term week last week, many were shut and deserted.
The high-minded idealism behind the flawed project was demonstrated by Madeline Cotson, head of Huyton arts and sports centre for learning.
She decreed that there needed to be less emphasis on schools teaching knowledge and more on teaching how to find it as children could now ‘sit on Google and find out anything at the push of a button’.
Education secretary Michael Gove is now expected to increase pressure on poorly performing councils to convert schools into academies which are outside their control.
He told the Sunday Times: ‘What has happened in Knowsley proves you cannot generate success simply by spending more money and erecting shiny new buildings.
‘A generation of educational theorists experimented with a misplaced ideology on some of our poorest children and we need to rexcue them with teh sort of schooling we know works.’
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