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Shambles in schools

The idea the concordat could produce a cosy consensus between national and local government in Scotland, and single outcome agreements provide a framework for the delivery of policy objectives always looked too good to be true.

Nowhere have the fault lines in this arrangement been more harshly exposed than the attempt to implement the SNP’s manifesto pledge to reduce class sizes in the first three years of primary to a maximum of 18.