Sentences with phrase «grammar school case»

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Lady Winterton pointed to the recent grammar school row as a case in point, adding nothing coming from the Conservative leadership had changed her view on the value of grammar schools.

That being the case, isn't it only right and proper that the national audience know where smaller parties like my party stand on the issues of national defence, on the issue of the union, on the issue of grammar school education, on issues of healthcare, taxation, the cost of living and defence spending?

This was apparently the case with his plan to place a new emphasis on spelling and grammar in the primary school curriculum, which was trailed earlier this month.

In the latter two cases, the schools involved — London Oratory, and St Olave's grammar in Kent — were actually state - funded.

She added: «I realise there has been significant interest in the outcome of this case, including from MPs, but I would like to take this opportunity to confirm that the government has no plans to change our policy on grammar schools.»

A government source told the paper that there was a «compelling» case for extending the proposed rules to grammar schools when a white paper setting out the plan is published in several weeks.

Commenting on the Education Select Committee's report on the Government's case for creating new grammar schools, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «The Government has failed to provide evidence that more selection in schools will improve education for all children and not harm the majority.

In both cases they are likely to stick to the Conservative manifesto pledges: 500 more free schools, allow «good» schools to expand (including grammars), change funding structures.

The new president will be highly critical of the Department for Education's changes to assessments for primary school pupils, with controversial new assessments introduced and in some cases withdrawn through departmental error, such as the new key stage one spelling, punctuation and grammar (Spag) assessment.

Given the excellent case the Secretary of State is laying out, how can those statistics be changed by grammar schools when currently only 3 % of kids on free school meals go to grammar schools?

Or am I a basket case who can't understand ordinary every day grammar school logical thinking?