Jeremy Corbyn is expected to say Theresa May’s flagship policy to create new grammar schools in England will be defeated by a concerted campaign by the Labour movement. They are the values that guide us: unity and universality, not division and privilege.”Dear Theresa May, here’s what grammar schools did to my family | John O’Farrell Read moreThe grammar school plans announced by the prime minister last week were formally presented to parliament on Monday, launching a consultation process. May has said the expansion of existing grammars and the opening of new selective schools will be accompanied by quotas to ensure poorer pupils are not excluded. Nicky Morgan, the former education secretary, said increasing academic selection would be “at best a distraction” and risked “undermining six years of progressive education reform”. Morgan’s own flagship education policy, forcing all schools to become academies, was defeated this year by a rebellion by Conservative backbenchers.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2016 16:29 UTC