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  Learning and Skills Bill [Lords] - Grammar schools: retention of selective admission arrangements - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected a new clause that would have abolished arrangements in the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_1">School Standards and Framework Act 1998</a> to allow a ballot of parents on whether grammar schools should keep selective admission arrangements.</p>
  
  <p>The clause reads as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote><p>In the School Standards and Framework Act 1998</p>
  
  
  <p>(a) in <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_9#pt3-ch2-pb2-l1g104">section 104 (designation of grammar schools)</a>, omit subsection (4)</p>
  <p>(b) omit <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_9#pt3-ch2-pb2-l1g105">sections 105 to 108</a> (procedure for ballots to determine retention or discontinuance of selective admission arrangements) and</p>
  <p>(c) in <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_9#pt3-ch2-pb2-l1g109">section 109</a> (proposals by governing body to and selective admission arrangements) omit subsections (3)(b) and (4).<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></p></blockquote>
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/2000/jun/27/grammar-schools-retention-of-selective#column_785">John Bercow MP,</a> House of Commons, 27 June 2000</i></li></ul></p>
  
  
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