Justine Greening said that grammar schools would have to do more to improve standards at non-selective schools NEIL HALL/REUTERSGrammar schools that want to expand will have to “guarantee” places for children from less well-off families, Justine Greening, the education secretary, told MPs today. She said that a consultation paper setting out proposals to extend academic selection would ensure that children from “ordinary working-class” families would benefit from school reform rather than “a privileged few”. Grammar schools would be expected to help to improve other-non selective schools by sponsoring a feeder primary school or by taking over another state school, Ms Greening said. In a statement to the Commons, she said that the government wished to open a “debate”…

Source: The Times September 12, 2016 15:59 UTC