3.The Act is directed at raising standards in Scotland’s schools. It will do this primarily by establishing new duties and rights in respect of education and a new framework for improvement. Sections 1 to 13 cover this.
4.Other provisions in the Act support this general focus on improvement and raising standards. The other main areas dealt with in the Act are –
	abolition of self-governing schools (sections 17 to 23);
	school boards (sections 26-31);
	pre-school education (sections 32-39);
	reform of the General Teaching Council (sections 45-54); and
	abolition of the Scottish Joint Negotiating Committee (section 55).
The Act