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PETER MULLIGAN
Secretary, Irish Community Arts Project
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Sir: David Blunkett "is likely to invite private firms and neighbouring councils" to bid for management of schools in Hackney, east London (report, 4 March). If private firms can run schools, does this mean that, if an industrial firm looks like becoming bankrupt, schoolteachers will be brought in to run it? Perhaps the CBI would like to comment?
MARC HURSTFIELD
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MONTAGUE BREAM
Chinnor, Oxfordshire
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