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School Standards and Framework Act 1998 was the major education legislation passed by the incoming
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government of
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This Act:
- imposed a limit of 30 on infant
An Infant school is a term used primarily in the United Kingdom for school for children between the ages of four and seven years. It is usually a small school serving a particular locality....
class sizes.
- abolished grant-maintained school
Grant-maintained schools were state schools in England and Wales between 1988 and 1998 that had opted out of local government control, being funded directly by a grant from central government...
s, introducing foundationIn England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
status.
- provided for a schedule of fully selective state schools (grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
s), and set up a procedure by which local communities could vote for their abolition. No grammar schools have yet been abolished using this mechanism.
- prohibited the expansion of partial selection
In England, a partially selective school is one of a few dozen state-funded secondary schools that select a proportion of their intake by ability or aptitude, permitted as a continuation of arrangements that existed prior to 1997....
.
- introduced an Admissions Code and the office of Schools Adjudicator to enforce this Code and consider objections to admission arrangements.