More Good School Places
An agenda for reform
Author: James O'Shaughnessy and Charlotte Leslie - Oct 1, 2005
There are two challenges for anyone designing a system of reform for English schools. The first is to look at how rapidly to expand the supply of good school places. This might be achieved by:
Encouraging new schools to set up within the state sector
Enabling good schools to expand
Bringing independent schools providing education at or below the state cost into the state sector
Effectively and swiftly turning around failing schools
Deregulating state schools to allow them to innovate and improve
However, even if all of these initiatives are undertaken it will take some time for the number of good school places to expand. During this transition period good schools will be forced to ration their places, as happens now. Experience shows us that children from disadvantaged backgrounds lose out disproportionately when this happens. This presents the second challenge to ensure a fairer distribution of the existing limited supply of good school places. This might be achieved by:
Providing extra funding for disadvantaged pupils
Providing fairer admissions arrangements
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