Sentences with phrase «selective education areas»
Parents with children in selective education areas are at parliament tonight to discuss with MPs their personal experiences of the «damage caused» by grammar schools.
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«I think I would want to get a lot more understanding of how the government thinks that areas where education standards are too low are going to opt for selective schools and why they think those selective schools would make a difference to all children in that area,» she told ITV News.
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She said: «In practice this could mean taking a proportion of pupils from lower income households, so that selective education is not reserved for those with the means to move into a catchment area or pay for tuition to pass the test.
The best schools measured by the Department for Education's new «Progress 8» measure have FSM rates much closer to the national average (15.2 %), and are less socially selective, with a third of these schools actually admitting more FSM pupils than their catchment area.
(1) Furthermore, the attainment of grammar school pupils comes at the expense of those who don't pass their 11 - plus, with pupil attainment at secondary moderns in areas with a selective education system lower than that of their counterparts in comprehensive schools.
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: «We are now seeing moves in many selective areas to open new grammar schools.
This assertion comes despite analysis of the government's own figures which shows that the education of young people in non-selective schools can suffer in selective areas.
Nandy, a former shadow education minister, accused the government of wanting to «pit children against one another and make losers of all of us», while Lucy Powell, the former shadow education secretary, warned that the practice of coaching children to pass the 11 - plus was «rife» in selective areas.