Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over ‘wasteful’ free school project

By Daniel Boffey, The Observer Saturday 21 January 2012 Katharine Birbalsingh, the teacher described as a Tory darling for her attacks on state education standards, is at the centre of a dispute over her plans to open a free secondary school with a “private ethos” in an area of south London desperately in need of [...]