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Article: Last Tory county approves grammar school
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 20, 1995
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A proposal to build the first grammar school in Britain for
more than 30 years has finally been approved by Buckinghamshire
County Council, landing the Government with an intriguing test of
its approach to selective education.
Public notices announcing the proposed establishment of a
1,000-place super-grammar school for the top 2 or 3 per cent of the
ability range in Milton Keynes will be published next Thursday.
There will then be a two-month period for comment and it will be
up to Gillian Shephard, the Secretary of State for Education, to
make the final decision on whether the controversial new school
gets the go-ahead to open in September 1998.
The plans, which also involve the building ...