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  Learning and Skills Bill - Grammar schools: retention of selective admission arrangements - 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.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_1">School Standards and Framework Act 1998</a>. This would have abolished arrangements to allow a ballot of parents on whether grammar schools should keep selective admission arrangements but the amendment was defeated.</p>
  
  
  
  <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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