With over a week since the launch we are in a good position to survey the coverage that Accord has got so far. We have been very pleased with the quality and quantity of positive coverage across the print and broadcast media and on blogs - please find a selection of it below:

Coverage of the launch included:

• Guardian: Campaigners fight to stop schools recruiting staff based on religion
• Independent: Faith school discrimination ‘will fragment education’
• Times: “Accord,  a powerful coalition of religious and secular organisations”
• BBC News: New pressure over faith schools
• CNS News: State-funded faith schools under fire in Britain
• Inspire: Coalition for inclusive schooling launched

Editorials

• Guardian: Testing faith
• Economist: Religious rights and wrongs
• Church of England Newspaper: Religious schools: open up or call time? (reproduced by Ekklesia)

Op-Eds

• Guardian: Faith schools may be Blair’s most damaging legacy, by Polly Toynbee
• Education Guardian: Would you tick the ethos box?, by Fiona Millar

Broadcast

• BBC TV Breakfast - A discussion of the campaign with Coordinator Alex Kennedy and another with Jonathan Bartley of Ekklesia
• Today Programme – Debate between Mary Bousted of ATL and Catholic commentator Cristina Odone
• Sky News
• Premier Christian Radio – interview with Simon Barrow of Ekklesia
• LBC debate between Jonathan Bartley and Melanie Philips
• Radio 4 Sunday Programme Interview with Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain
• Radio 4 News – top headline on morning news bulletins 30/08/09
• British Satellite News – filmed launch to be syndicated to foreign satellite channels

Blogs

• Open Democracy: Changing the agenda on faith schools
• Liberal Conspiracy: We should face up to faith schools
• Wardman Wire: Faithfully schooled for debate?
  
• Thinking Anglicans: Faith schools: changing the agenda
  

The Guardian’s Comment is Free:

• Theo Hobson: Throw open the doors
  
• Savitri Hensman: Schooled to be neighbours
• Jonathan Romain: I’m for faith, not faith schools
• Simon Barrow: Changing the faith schools’ agenda
  

• Letters in the Guardian