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Raising Standards for all During recent years, Local Education Authorities have made great progress in improving the educational attainment of, and equality of opportunity for, their minority ethnic pupils. The Government will shortly be taking funding decisions which may have a profound impact on Local Education Authorities, and ultimately schools, ability to continue making such improvements. The Local Government Association's High Ethnicity Authorities' Special Interest Group is campaigning for the continued recognition of the funding required to support the needs of ethnically diverse communities in the distribution of resources to local authorities. Adequate funding must be available for those local education authorities with high numbers of pupils from minority ethnic groups. Without this commitment, schools cannot succeed in giving all pupils an equal chance of achieving their full potential. Ethnic groups in Britain face social and economic exclusion through low educational attainment. Inequalities of attainment in GCSE examinations place many minority ethnic pupils in a disadvantaged position in the youth education, labour, and training markets, and increase the...

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