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  Education and Inspections Bill - Ballot of parents to change from community school to foundation school - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected a <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2006-05-23a.1415.0">new clause</a> for the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/181/06181.i-vii.html">Education and Inspections Bill</a>.  The new clause would have stated:</p>
  
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  A proposal [to]... change [a]... community school to [a] foundation school may be implemented only if [it]... has been approved by a ballot of parents of pupils attending the school...<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>
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  <p>This was probably in response to <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/181/06181.8-14.html#j205f"> Clause 20</a> which makes it the right of the governing body of the school to determine whether to make a proposal to convert a community school into a foundation school.</p>
  
  <p>More information on what it means to be a "foundation school" can be found <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2006-03-15&number=192&dmp=1074">here</a>.
  
  <p>Both Labour and Tory parties voted against the requirement for a ballot among the parents.  Only the LibDems and a substantial Labour rebellion voted in favour.</p>
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2006-05-23c.1415.0">John Grogan MP,</a> House of Commons, 23 May 2006</i></ul></li></p>
  
  
  
  
  
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