Many of Britain’s best head teachers backed Michael Gove
Reading the papers over the last few days, you’d be forgiven for thinking that no teachers backed Michael Gove and his agenda. But a letter in The Sunday Times yesterday told a very different story. Signed by 76 people, most of them head teachers of outstanding schools in deprived areas, it praised him as ‘a man of great conviction’ and declared that his ‘passion to level the playing field has been unwavering.’ The letter is a reminder that many of the best heads in the country were in favour of the Gove agenda because they realised that the status quo was not good enough. Here’s the letter and the full list