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Some, though, think the ban on for-profit firms setting up free schools might have to be lifted.

Ministers must eventually grapple with the question of whether to lift the ban on free schools being run for profit.

In Britain they are trying to kill "free" schools, which can be set up outside local-authority control.

There has been a slower trickle of "free schools" , entirely new state schools with the same operational freedoms as academies.

Free schools open to all children did not exist in colonial America.

So far around 160 schools have applied to become academies, and there have been over 60 bids to set up new free schools.

The creation of new, independently run but non-selective and state-funded "free schools" is one of the government's central policies.

State funding would follow children into free schools, meaning that if lots of new ones open, some state schools will have to close.

This might have implications for the government's free schools' policy.

Helen: They might be free health insurance, a car, or free schools for the employee's children.

Mr Cameron's government is interested in Sweden's education reforms (Swedish free schools inspired British academies) and health care.

If I had enough money, I would build free schools for poor children.

The free schools and academy programme are a divisive and unnecessary experiment with this.

The idea is to insulate free schools from hostile politicians by moving quickly from policy to practice to broad popularity.

If the Tories stand firm, free schools could be in Britain to stay.

Teaching unions object to the fact that teachers at free schools need not have formal teaching qualifications.

Among them were the first pupils to enrol at the new "free" schools established by parents, teachers and other groups.

The prime minister was scathing about critics of free schools who say they will divert resources from existing schools.

Despite the profusion of academies, the government will not be satisfied until free schools take off too.

Twenty-four "free schools" are to open next month, the government has announced.

The new "free" schools are inspired by initiatives started in the US and Sweden during the 1990s.

REMEMBER the Big Society? Free schools?

Asked about the future, he added: "Well we're in a coalition now, and we're working to ensure that we get more free schools. "

Some 24 free schools have opened or will do so shortly.

Jefferson wrote from France in 1786, advising a friend to "preach a crusade against ignorance, " and support free schools in Virginia.

That is why we are opening free schools across the country.

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