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  Education Bill - Annual Parents' Meetings
  
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  The majority Content voters passed an amendment[1] to the [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_1 Education Bill]. The vote removed subsection (2) of a clause entitled [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_4#pt3-ch1-l1g33 'Annual Parents' Meetings']. This subsection described how schools should conduct these types of meetings as follows:
  
  :(2) The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for discussion of the manner in which the school has been, and is to be, conducted, and of any other matters relating to the school raised by parents of registered pupils. 
  
  However, even though this subsection was removed in this vote it still ended up becoming law when the Education Bill 2002 received [http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/lrds_royal_assent.htm Royal Assent] on 24th July 2002.
  
  The main aims of the Education Bill were to[2]:
  
  * Allow schools to exempt themselves from laws which prevented them from innovating. However, this is dependent on the Secretary of State's approval.
  * Give good schools the option of qualifying for greater flexibility in the National Curriculum and teachers' pay.
  * Allow schools to join together in a federation under a single governing body.
  * Further regulate school admissions, exclusions and attendance policies.
  * Give the Secretary of State further powers to intervene in failing schools.
  * Introduce a new regulatory regime for independent schools.
  
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  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2002-05-14a.148.3 Baroness Blatch], House of Lords, 14 May 2002
  * [2] [http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/educationoverview/educationact/summary/ TeacherNet Summary], 17 September 2002
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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