Sentences with phrase «wanting more grammar schools»

Support for grammars is strong across all age and income groups with a remarkable 85 % of 18 to 24 year - olds (many of whom will be first - time voters) wanting more grammar schools.

He wants more grammar schools.

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It also found that grammar schools were overwhelmingly favoured by those who attended them, with 61 per cent wanting the government to build more, compared to 17 per cent who want them all scrapped.

The poll also found that grammar schools were overwhelmingly favoured by those who attended them, with 61 per cent wanting the government to build more, compared to 17 per cent who want them all scrapped.

And of course it tended to perpetuate class divisions, as better - off kids with better - educated parents were much more apt to make it into (and want to enter) the grammar schools.

Still others wanted to ban spelling and grammar to make school more fun.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, and we want more pupils from lower - income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

A Department for Education spokesperson said grammar schools provided «a good education for their disadvantaged pupils», adding: «we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that».

«Local areas who want more grammar places should be able to have them and similarly, local areas who want to stick with the existing schools that they're happy with will be able to do that too.»

«We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, which is why we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

Kent councillors want grammar schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds at the expense of children from outside the county

The government wants to allow successful academies, including grammar schools, to take on more pupils and is consulting on changes.

«Pupils in grammar schools make significantly more progress relative to their similarly - able peers,» he said, adding that ministers wanted to ensure that children from disadvantaged backgrounds «have the opportunity to benefit from selective schools».

«We have set out our proposals to look at introducing more grammar schools where local communities want that.»

But both Theresa May and Justine Greening, the education secretary, have claimed they do not want to see a return to the «binary system» of grammar schools and secondary moderns of the 1950s, and have unveiled plans to force selective schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The Sutton Trust itself has highlighted the positive impact grammar schools can have on pupils from less well - off backgrounds and that's exactly why we want more young people to benefit.

We want to remove the restrictive regulations that are preventing more children from going to high - quality faith schools, and we want to end the ban on the opening of new grammar schools.

I do not think that it is tenable in a country that has grammars and selection for the Opposition to say they do not like that situation, but that they do not want us to take any steps whatever to see how we can deliver more strongly on social mobility through the schools already in place.

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.