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  School Standards and Framework Bill - Grant Maintained Schools (Parental Ballot) - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected a new clause to the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmbills/135/1998135.htm#aofs">School Standards and Framework Bill</a>. The clause would have required schools to ballot parents on whether they wanted their school to remain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant-maintained_school">grant maintained</a><a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>.</p> 
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1998/mar/11/grant-maintained-schools#column_620">Stephen Dorrell MP,</a> House of Commons, 11 March 1998</p></ul></li></i>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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