Sentence examples for voluntary schools from inspiring English sources

Free education was a state power grab, designed to undercut the voluntary schools, and it has been a disaster.

In 1829 the Roman Catholics were emancipated by law from disabilities they had long suffered, and so they also were able to provide voluntary schools.

More than a century has elapsed since councils were given the job of rationalising thousands of different voluntary schools, ensuring decent standards and access for every child.

It argued that, long before the 1870 Education Act established compulsory state education, the majority of English children were literate, thanks to private and voluntary schools.

Six years later a committee of the Privy Council was established to administer the state grants, now made annually, and to arrange for the inspection of voluntary schools aided from public funds.

South Australia held to a continuous development of a general system based on common Christianity, but Western Australia's Elementary Education Bill of 1871 returned to dual support for both government and voluntary schools.

All supported voluntary school prayer.

And they recounted his battle as Missouri's attorney general against a voluntary school desegregation plan.

As Missouri's attorney general, he opposed even a voluntary school desegregation plan in metropolitan St . Louis

But experience with "voluntary" school prayer demonstrates that peer pressure or other factors may hinder children from exercising that right.

Later victories included negotiating a voluntary school desegregation plan in St . Louisin the 1980s as well as deals with other school systems.