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← Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools

davorg's Avatar Jump to comment 5 by davorg

This piece was written before Ed Balls spoke to MPs and is therefore largely guesswork about what he might say.

What he actually said was rather different.

The Government has decided against backing more faith schools, the Children, Schools and Families Secretary, Ed Balls, told MPs.

In what is being seen as one of the most significant policy shifts of the post-Tony Blair era in education, he told a Commons select committee: "It is not the policy of the Government nor my department to expand the number of faith schools. We're not leading a drive for more faith schools."
See http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3324436.ece

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:24:00 UTC | #108175