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  • Poor Children May Be Bused To Schools In Wealthy Areas (UK)

    10/17/2005 5:41:11 PM PDT · by blam · 8 replies · 495+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-18-2005 | Liz Lightfoot
    Poor children may be bused to school in wealthy areas By Liz Lightfoot, Education Correspondent (Filed: 18/10/2005) Free bus travel for children from council estates will be announced next week as part of the Government's effort to end the middle class stranglehold on popular schools. "Choice advisers" will tell parents about schools outside their areas to which they can apply and help them through the admissions process. Groups of schools will be allowed to test children and put them into ability bands, sharing out the most and least able so that their intakes reflect the profile of the local authority...