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Headteachers are to call for the Government to introduce a "scrappage scheme" for education quangos, and pump the money saved directly into cash-strapped schools.
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), technology agency Becta and the General Teaching Council are to be singled out as time- wasting organisations, filling headteachers' recycling bins with unwanted initiatives.
Alan Cornwall, head of Anlaby Primary near Hull, will tell the annual conference of heads union the NAHT these quangos "seem more concerned with advertising and marketing than actual substance".
He said schools were drowning in cascades of shiny spiral-bound folders, DVDs and colourful paperwork with proposed schemes for school improvement that ignore the reality of school life.
"We would love to have the luxury of closing the school for a year to bring in...