More than half a million parents have appealed against their child’s allocated school, figures out today show.Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Schools Secretary, David Laws said:
“Every year, tens of thousands of parents are left disappointed because their child can’t get into the school of their choice.
“This is a damning indictment of Labour’s failure to raise school standards across the board, and to tackle the dramatic differences in results between some schools and neighbourhoods.
“The problems are particularly bad in some parts of the country, such as London, where the Government has failed to plan for rising pupil numbers. This is now creating a real crisis in some boroughs.
“These figures are a symptom of a system in which there are too many poorly performing schools which parents are desperate to avoid. We need to raise the quality of all schools and putting additional resources into those schools with the greatest challenges with extra funding to reduce class sizes and tackle poor literacy and numeracy.”
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