Sentences with phrase «grammar school expansion»

The government pledges # 50m for grammar school expansion and gives councils funding for new faith schools.

Maybe this is because the Department for Education is no longer spending any resource on looking into grammar school expansion.

«If the government wants to give the public the kinds of schools they want, grammar school expansion may not be the best place to focus.»

Nicky Morgan's decision to allow a controversial grammar school expansion on a site nine miles away has again been questioned after new claims the school flouted consultation guidelines.

Grammar school expansion is a distraction from the issues that matter most.

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast the Conservatives had «broken their contract» with the public over funding and grammar school expansion, to the point that some schools were having to let teachers and teaching assistants go.

It says: «To make matters worse - far worse - the Department for Education continues to divert significant monies to capital and revenue funding such as free school provision and grammar school expansion.

KCC said it would submit detailed proposals for the grammar school expansion to the government in the coming weeks.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, has previously called the plans for grammar school expansion «yet another unnecessary distraction».

Not exact matches

Given that Remain MPs far outweigh Leave ones, it is possibly May will do a deal with some of them to grant a vote on Article 50 in exchange for support on some of her other controversial proposals, such as grammar schools or Heathrow expansion.

May has already dropped plans to push through social care funding changes dubbed the «dementia tax», and an expansion of grammar schools since the election.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has claimed that blocking the expansion of a successful grammar school is «perverse».

Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond has officially announced additional investment support the expansion of grammar schools.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of NAHT, says that» the evidence does not support the expansion of grammar schools», arguing that they «do not contribute to social mobility» and «will distract attention from the things that really matter».

According to the Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday, the majority of people aged under 55 to not support the expansion of grammar schools.

Professor Liz Todd, professor of education inclusion of Newcastle University, said that the figures raised questions over the new policy for expanding selection and suggested opening new grammar schools would lead to an expansion of the private tuition market.

Whatever happens with the legislation preventing new selective schools we will be keen to guard against an increase in annexe grammar expansion, and other covert means to expand selection.

New education secretary Damian Hinds has said that he would enthusiastically back the expansion of England's existing 163 grammar schools.

The trimmed - down expansion plans will allow grammars to grow bigger or to develop spin - off sites along the lines of the Sevenoaks «annexe» built by Weald of Kent Grammar School in Tonbridge last year.

Under the new admissions rules, councils can no longer block the expansion of both grammar and comprehensive schools.

Mr Hinds said the plans, which invite grammar schools to bid for cash from a # 50m expansion fund, would «give parents greater choice».

Grammar schools in England are being given the chance to create thousands of new places in a trimmed - down selective school expansion programme.

Critics of the expansion plans have focused on the low number of pupils attending grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure of poverty.

The MPs also raised concerns about how an expansion of grammars would affect other non-selective schools, in terms of funding and the supply of teachers.

John Pugh, of the Liberal Democrats, said: «This lays bare the desperate lengths the Conservative party are willing to go to deliver grammar schools through the cloak of expansion.

A long - running dispute in Kent was resolved this year when an existing grammar school was allowed to open another branch in another town, on the basis that this was the expansion of an existing school, rather than opening an entirely new school.

A leading campaigner for the expansion of selection during David Cameron's tenure as prime minister, Brady became a prominent cheerleader for Theresa May's plans to open the first new grammar schools in decades when they were announced last year.

Should the government decide to advocate an expansion of grammar schools - in whatever form - the opposition to that would be fierce.

Grammar schools seeking money from the «selective schools expansion fund» will have to show they ensure fair access for disadvantaged pupils.

The expansion of grammar schools, with the heat taken out by months of briefing, is included.

It highlights # 120m for four land purchases for free schools, # 384m for subsequently abandoned plans to make all schools academies and # 150m for the expansion of grammar schools.

On top of the original # 23.2 billion, there is the # 200 million pot for the expansion of grammar schools allocated in last year's autumn statement.

Congress opposes the expansion of selection in England's schools by whatever means either through the establishment of new grammar schools, or by allowing free schools to select some of their intake.

Allocating cash for the expansion of grammar schools in England when other parts of the education sector face funding concerns is «baffling», shadow education secretary Angela Rayner says.

The Opposition motion is therefore clearly flawed, but I accept that an expansion of grammars needs to be done in the right way, with tests that are fair and objective, minimising the scope for coaching, and with grammars schools expanded beyond a middle - class preserve.

Campaigners who oppose the expansion of academic selection are «exploring the possibility of legal action» over government plans to encourage existing grammar schools to expand.

A green paper setting out plans for the expansion of grammar schools — both new and existing ones — is due to be announced by Theresa May today.

The expansion of grammar schools would do the exact opposite.»

In Gloucestershire, the heads of several comprehensive schools have expressed serious concerns about the impact of the proposed expansion of grammar schools in the area.

In a statement, the organisation said it shared the «ambition and passion for social mobility», but warned that experts were «unanimous that an expansion of grammar schools would lead to worse outcomes for the majority of children, especially the poorest».

The government has already set out plans to make grammar schools become more inclusive if they want cash for expansion, but the agreement with the GSHA is an attempt to encourage selective schools to change their ways by the end of the parliament in 2022.

Grammar schools are back in the news with Nicky Morgan's approval of a Kent school's expansion.

The government will spend # 50 million a year on the expansion of existing grammar schools, Theresa May has announced.

Lets refer to the Conservative idea as «reintroducing secondary modern schools» not» reintroducing grammar schools» as this would be the reality of selection for most of our children It would also result in an expansion of the independent sector as middle class parents paid to keep their children out of secondary modern schools.

The National Association for Secondary Moderns (NASM) sees the expansion of a Kent grammar school as a chance to raise issues that have affected schools in England's selective local authorities for decades.

Under the terms of the selective school expansion fund, which was first announced in 2016, grammar schools wishing to apply for money must first carry out a four - week consultation.