Sentences with phrase «about grammar schools»

The debates rage on about grammar schools, free schools and funding, but without dealing with teacher recruitment and retention, those policy debates are largely irrelevant.

Which is why people are getting angry about grammar schools.

We will hear more about grammar schools at the Tory conference this week.

BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11 - plus questions for readers to tackle.

Toby Young is on the candidates» list and has been saying the right things about grammar schools.

They certainly don't understand about grammar schools.»

Michael Howard was reviewing the papers on Andrew Marr's AM this Sunday and the barbed comments in his direction from other guests about the grammar schools fiasco and his refusal to say anything, he just gave a grimacing wincing smile, told us all.

Davis mutters about grammar schools; Johnson splutters about taxing bankers.»

«The job of, say, taking on a school in special measures in a very challenging community is very different to that of running a grammar school, and the DNA argument, that there's something about grammar schools that you can just transplant into a failing school, does not stack up,» he said.

If you look at the comments in the Daily Mail under any article about grammar schools, the vast majority of their readers (ie Tory voters) want them».

It talks about a grammar school bonus for those pupils studying in them, describing it as an extra 2.4 grades at GCSE across eight subjects for all pupils in the current stock of grammars.

Part of our Election 2017 series, read what happened when Head of Impact Karen Wespieser challenged the Prime Minister about grammar schools at a Duck Day fete (no, really).

Asked about grammar schools, he was clear that he would seek to defend the legislation he introduced in 1998 banning any further selective schools, which the prime minister has said she will now overturn.

But it is unhelpful to conflate, say, money for new schools — which is a real need that we shouldn't beat up the government for trying to solve — with thoughts about grammar schools, for example.

The argument about grammar schools has also acquired a political edge: grammar schools are a shibboleth for lots on the right.

Ms Greening was given a polite welcome by delegates when she began her speech, but some delegates began to murmur when she began answering a question about grammar schools.