Mr Bloomer wants to see a wider system for running schools in Scotland A senior figure in Scottish education has backed the idea of allowing charitable trusts and not-for-profit companies to run schools.
Keir Bloomer is a former leader of the Association of Directors of Education who has also been an adviser to the Scottish government.
He thinks councils should no longer run all publicly-funded schools.
His ideas are likely to be opposed by local authority body Cosla, which is against a major revamp in education.
Mr Bloomer will be among a number of speakers at a conference in Edinburgh on managing Scotland’s schools.
He suggests that if schools were run by non-profit making companies or charitable trusts they would be more effective as they would have more control over what they do and how they spend their money.
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