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  School Standards and Framework Bill - Grant Maintained Schools (Parental Ballot) - rejected
  
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  The majority No voters rejected a new clause[1] to the [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmbills/135/1998135.htm#aofs School Standards and Framework Bill]. The clause would have required schools to ballot parents on whether they wanted their school to remain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant-maintained_school grant maintained]. However, the amendment was defeated.
  
  
  The School Standards and Framework Bill's main aims were to[2]:
  
  * Limit infant class sizes to a maximum of 30
  * Abolish grant-maintained schools
  * Allow local communities to vote to abolish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school#Contemporary_British_grammar_schools grammar schools]
  * Establish an Admissions Code for schools and set up the [http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk/index.cfm Office of Schools Adjudicator] to enforce this code
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  * [1] [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1998/mar/11/grant-maintained-schools#column_620 Stephen Dorrell MP], House of Commons, 11 March 1998
  
  * [2] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Standards_and_Framework_Act_1998 Wikipedia entry], retrieved on 2010-01-30
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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