All schools in West Sussex should become academies or free schools, the county council's cabinet member for education has said.
Conservative councillor Peter Griffiths said that the authority's 250-plus schools should in time convert to try to improve standards.
His comments came in response to a 500-signature petition calling on the council to withdraw its automatic support of academies.
Speaking to The Argus yesterday, Mr Griffiths said: “The most important thing here is to improve educational standards.
“We need to make sure that is our priority and the politics and the rest can be forgotten.
“There is absolutely no deadline or anything like that. It will be a gradual change not a gallop.”
A petition was presented to the council by the West Sussex Academy Alliance, which formed following the controversial conversion of Worthing High School.
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