Radio 702 Interview: A model to improve public schools
The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed challenges by Sadtu and Equal Education to the Western Cape’s school reform laws. The court found that provinces are allowed to legislate on education, and that collaboration and donor-funded schools count as public schools even though they work differently from the ones described in the South African Schools […]
Cape Talk Interview: School reform – Could a new court ruling change how SA’s public schools are run?
The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed challenges by Sadtu and Equal Education to the Western Cape’s school reform laws. The court found that provinces are allowed to legislate on education, and that collaboration and donor-funded schools count as public schools even though they work differently from the ones described in the South African Schools […]
Business Day Article: SCA upholds Western Cape introduction of new schools models
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has handed down a potentially far-reaching ruling upholding the Western Cape’s authority to legislate for new models for public schools, including those that draw on private sector expertise to improve school governance and management. Last week the SCA dismissed the legal challenges brought by the South African Democratic Teachers […]
Supreme Court of Appeal strikes a blow for radical change in SA public schooling
An irony of public schooling in many parts of the world is that this potential wellspring of imagination and creativity is smothered by myriad bureaucratic constraints. For example, ordinary public schools in South Africa all follow the same composition of school governing bodies (SGBs), the same staff complement financed from the national purse and the […]