"Academies represent the privatisation of a public service (Ball 2007, Beckett 2007). In 1869the National Education League was launched in Birmingham. It called for an end to schools dependent on the charity of the wealthy, and for them to be run by elected local authorities and funded through the rates. By 1870 the League had more than one hundred branches,mostly in cities and drawing from trades unions and working men's organisations.Academies are a reversal of that historic gain for the working class in education; a return to a new form of Victorian charity (which does not exclude the possibility of a future transition to a profit-making role). They pose fundamental issues of democracy and of class politics." (Hatcher 2009)
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