Tag Archives: Steiner education

Free Schools(2)

Welcome to the second of a series of posts looking at Steiner Free School applications and the reasons as to why they shouldn’t and so far haven’t been successful.

Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF) is the body coordinating Steiner education …

Free Schools(1)

Prior to moving home I had part written a lengthy post about the many Steiner schools applying (at that time) to become ‘Free Schools’ but the draft of that post was lost when my computer died. Rather than a re-write …

Steiner racism & state funding – Tories offer SWSF lessons on spin

The Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF) ‘special pre-election seminar’ mentioned in an earlier post has now taken place and a concise and accurate record of the ‘special’ seminar appears below. It notes comments from top Conservative spokespeople concerning Steiner racism …

Four Steiner Schools close in a month, more closures anticipated

September 2009 saw the demise of four Steiner school ‘initiatives’ and schools. The now defunct organisations are the Durham Steiner Initiative, Aldringham Green School Association, Raphael Steiner School (Suffolk) and Welsh based Steiner school Dan Yr Afallen. Basic information about …