The authority has been given eight weeks to produce an action plan for improvements following the publication of the report last week. The authority is responsible for nine secondary and 36 primary schools, two special schools and seven special units/bases, one Gaelic-medium unit, 16 nursery classes, one Gaelic-medium nursery class, one special educational needs nursery class and one nursery school.
The report was one of the first two inspections by Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools on education authorities. The other report, on Highland Council, had more favourable comments.
East Dunbartonshire's report stated, 'The authority had been particularly slow in establishing a clear and distinctive vision for education. The area of the authority's work was unsatisfactory. At the time of the inspection, over four years after its establishment, many school staff and almost all school board chairpersons were unable to identify a vision, values or aims for education.'
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