To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on 15 June 2017 (Official Report, c. 46), what its position is on whether the ministerial appointment of regional directors to manage the regional improvement collaboratives, which will then report directly to Education Scotland and ministers, has taken account of the observation in the report, Improving Schools in Scotland: An OECD Perspective, that "Curriculum for Excellence needs to be less managed from the centre".