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  School Standards and Framework Bill - Partial Selection of Pupils - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected an amendment to the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmbills/135/1998135.htm#aofs">School Standards and Framework Bill</a>. The amendment would have, in the <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1998/mar/24/code-of-practice#column_253">words of Don Foster MP</a>, ended "partial selection [of pupils] where it exists and ensure that there is no opportunity for further extension of partial selection in our schools."</p>
  
  <p>The amendment reads as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>"Amendment No. 147, in page 67, line 40, leave out from 'ability' to 'any' in line 43."</blockquote>  
   
  
  
  
  
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