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  Education Bill - Power of school to innovate without permission of the Secretary of State - rejected
  
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  <p> The majority No voters rejected a new clause<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> to the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmbills/087/2002087.htm">Education Bill</a>. This would have allowed schools to innovate without asking the Secretary of State to do so. However, the amendment was defeated.</p>
  
  <p>The main aims of the Education Bill were to<a href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>:</p>
  
  <ul><li>Allow schools to exempt themselves from laws which prevented them from innovating. However, this is dependent on the Secretary of State's approval.</li>
  <li>Give good schools the option of qualifying for greater flexibility in the National Curriculum and teachers' pay.</li>
  <li>Allows schools to join together in a federation under a single governing body</li>
  <li>Further regulate school admissions, exclusions and attendance policies</li>
  <li>Gives the Secretary of State further powers to intervene in failing schools</li>
  <li>Introduces a new regulatory regime for independent schools</li></ul>
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2002-02-05.831.4">Phil Willis MP,</a> House of Commons, 5 February 2002</p></li>
  
  <li><p id="footnote-2">[2] <a href="http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/educationoverview/educationact/summary/">TeacherNet Summary</a>, 17 September 2002</p></li></ul></i>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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