Sentences with phrase «selection by house price»
The Conservatives will review admissions to «overcome the unfairness of selection by house price» but says it will never introduce a mandatory lottery - based school admissions policy.
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Speaking to the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, May reportedly defended the idea of selection by saying: «We have already got selection haven't we - it's called selection by house price.»
However, according to Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, while it sounds like a good way on paper to «overcome the unfairness of selection by house price», it could prevent less well - off kids from attending their local schools.
The prime minister said «selection by house price» already existed for school places - and that there was no reason to block the wider use of selection by ability.
«Further selection will do nothing to stop «selection by house price», nor will it eradicate child poverty.
And he points to research from the Sutton Trust showing how popular comprehensives in affluent areas have themselves become «socially exclusive», with «selection by house price».