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Does Making Schools Compete For Pupils Bring More Benefit or Harm?
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Does Making Schools Compete For Pupils Bring More Benefit or Harm? I do not presume to answer the above question with a definitive answer but I will show you, the reader, a clear outline of the options and their possibilities and how the changes have progressed into today's educational system. The education reform act of 1988 set out to give parents the right to 'express a preference' to which school they felt it best to send their children. One implication that derived from the act was that schools were expected to take pupils up to a historically pre determined limit (their 1979 level of intake). This in turn brings to an end the catchment areas that had been the previous method of selection. A positive outcome that could come from the changes was that parents did not necessarily have to send their children to the nearest school. These choices were outlined...
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