Sentence examples for end selection from inspiring English sources

High Wycombe governor Katy Simmons says the news that parents in Windsor and Maidenhead are prepared to fight back has been heartening, although she admits that trying to end selection in a fully selective authority is much harder than it is in an area where the 11-plus isn't currently in use.

Parents campaigning to end selection already face a struggle.

DiBiasio, LM Yes, but David Blunkett reneged on his promise to end selection at 11. 'Watch my lips' was apparently a joke.

Ed Miliband made a new pitch to Labour's left, suggesting the system for holding ballots to abolish grammar schools should be reviewed, potentially making it easier to end selection.

"Warren has had a long time to look at players, but in the end selection comes down to opinion and in that sense, picking the Lions is the same as selecting any team.

Some parents in Reading have launched the first campaign since 2000 to end selection, targeting Reading School and Kendrick School for Girls, which draw children from a wide catchment area.

In 1977, a Labour local authority ended selection at 45 inner-London grammar schools.

Miranda Sawyer once described Junior Choice as "a never-ending selection of silly records with Stewpot burbling happily in between".

Despite this, more people are in favour of creating new grammar schools (38%) than would be in favour of ending selection in those that still exist (23%).

LEAs have changed since their creation in 1902, pioneering all the major educational reforms, from ending selection at the age of 11 to abolishing corporal punishment.

Messrs Blair, Gove and Cameron have all sent or are sending their children to high-performing schools that were once London grammar schools, so it is obvious that ending selection did not destroy those schools.