School Standards and Framework Bill — Grant Maintained Schools (Parental Ballot) — rejected — 11 Mar 1998

The majority No voters rejected a new clause^[1] to the School Standards and Framework Bill. The clause would have required schools to ballot parents on whether they wanted their school to remain grant maintained. However, the amendment was defeated.

The School Standards and Framework Bill's main aims were to^[2]:

• Limit infant class sizes to a maximum of 30
• Abolish grant-maintained schools
• Allow local communities to vote to abolish grammar schools
• Establish an Admissions Code for schools and set up the Office of Schools Adjudicator to enforce this code

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• [1] Stephen Dorrell MP, House of Commons, 11 March 1998
• [2] Wikipedia entry, retrieved on 2010-01-30

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