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What are these free schools that are popping up everywhere....What happens to the funding of state schools if one opens in the area poaching students ...How do they differ from academies?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ed...y-7627528.html

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Their arrival has caused a loss of pupils for existing comprehensives – threatening their viability, says the report. In one school – an academy highly rated by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog – the headteacher estimated he will lose £1m a year as a result of a new free school being set up.

http://education.gov.uk/inthenews/a0...m-2012-onwards

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Capital funding for these projects is still to be decided.

How can you open a school if you do not know how it will be funded?....