{"id":795,"date":"2018-12-19T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breslinpublicpolicy.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:52:53","slug":"the-broken-promise-of-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breslinpublicpolicy.com\/news\/the-broken-promise-of-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Promise of Autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Breslin&#8217;s debut piece in Schools Week explores the changing nature of school-based headship in multi-school settings and ponders whether the emergence of Trusts and Federations amounts to &#8216;a broken promise of autonomy&#8217; for school-based leaders. <\/p>\n<p>One school-based head has described the article as &#8220;a timely call to evaluate the role, scope and value of tiered executive management functions in schools and their impact in eroding the competencies and cultures that exist within individual institutions&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolsweek.co.uk\/the-broken-promise-of-autonomy-for-heads-in-multi-academy-trusts\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Breslin&#8217;s debut piece in Schools Week explores the changing nature of school-based headship in multi-school settings and ponders whether the emergence of Trusts and Federations amounts to &#8216;a broken promise of autonomy&#8217; for school-based leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - 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