Governing bodies of schools could come under the microscope and be blamed for falling education standards in Wales.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats' sector spokesman Aled Roberts claimed that dismissing governors could become a common practice in more instances, because the pressure is on to improve educational attainment in Wales.
"Once you do away with that governing body, the reliance is then on the local authority - and what do we do in those areas where the local authorities themselves have been criticised by Estyn for the performance of their own departments?" he told the BBC.
Mr Roberts' words came after two councils applied to education minister Leighton Andrews to sack the board of governors at local schools.
One of these requests has been granted for an establishment in Cardiff, while the other one is currently under consideration for a school in Torfaen.
The need for improvement in education standards was made clear after Estyn reported that 20 per cent of children started life in secondary school with a reading age below nine years and six months.
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