I opined last week on the fate of the British education system in light of Thursday's confusing election results. Well as of the last hour (or so?I'm relying on my New York Times alerts timeline here!) Labour Party PM Gordon Brown has stepped down and Tory candidate David Cameron will be the new prime minister. As I guessed, there's going to be some kind of coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Dems. ?Twill be interesting to see how that shakes down re: education. I'll be back with more as details emerge.
UPDATE 5/12/10, 11:12 am: I'm not the only one who's curious about the Tory-Lib Dem coalition and schools. Check out BBC correspondent Sean Coughlan's take from Monday. Surely others will comment as Cameron and Clegg (the Lib Dem candidate who is now Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition government) hash out the details. We do know one thing: Michael Gove, Cameron's schools czar, and not a Lib Dem,?will be the new Education Secretary in the new coalition government's cabinet. (In a coalition government, the two parties share the cabinet.) Gove is the mastermind behind the ?free schools? (aka British charters) movement, the same movement that Clegg called ?a disaster for standards? during the campaign. Bet he's wondering how to eat those words now.
?Stafford Palmieri
