Parents say they have collected more than 200 signatures on a petition for a free school.
Education Secretary Michael Gove has given the go-ahead to an initial plan for a free school on Teesside.
The Department for Education has been told to publish details of applicants wanting to set up a free school.
Wilton Park School has also recently announced plans for a free school.
As a free school, Pimlico Primary, which will have 420 pupils by 2019, will follow a curriculum which follows the principles of US academic, ED Hirsch.
Plans to give all children in Blackpool a free school breakfast to stop them turning up for lessons hungry have been approved by the town's council.
Parents in west Kent who fear there will not be enough primary school places in the area have put forward proposals to open a free school.
Because of a change in the law, it is much easier, quicker, and sometimes cheaper, for local authorities to support a free school than start their own.
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Around 139, 800 children live in poverty in Scotland but only 97, 096 receive a free school meal, figures compiled by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland show.
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It said its aim was to "incorporate these findings with ideas from the local community, and establish a free school that complements the existing secondary schools in the area".
Dr Sam Royston, policy advisor at the Children's Society, believes more than half of school children living in poverty, around 1.2 million, are still not receiving a free school meal.
The hope in Frome is to turn the old hospital into a free school - and the planning application is due to be handed into the council in the new year.
Indeed, one of the boldest moves (or most brazen, according to your view) is the "presumption" that any newly created school will be an academy or a free school, not a local authority school.
"It's clear that the board understands the monetary costs but not the value of what having a free school is, " said Joe Riley, 22, a senior in the arts school and a member of the Occupy Cooper movement.
The Conservatives have reiterated their plan to make every school a "free school", run entirely by its head teacher and governors and setting its own admissions, discipline, uniforms and pay policies.
In Bedford, the NUT says a secondary free school is being funded when there will be a 25% surplus at secondary age and 38% shortfall in primary places.
More than 200 people have expressed an interest in sending their children to a planned free school in Kent.
Through tourism, Zezinho has been able to save money to fund the start of a free DJ school with classes starting this July.
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The One in a Million Free School was due to open on 3 September but funding was withdrawn because it had failed to attract enough pupils.
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The Department for Education has signed a funding agreement which means the One in a Million Free School can take its first pupils on 2 September.
Their proposal is being examined by the New School Network - a charity supporting free school applications around England - before it is sent to the government.
Boone Pickens' son Thomas and Christian Melhado, of the Ford family--invited Walker to a benefit for the Children's Storefront School, a private tuition-free elementary school in one of Harlem's most blighted areas.
The teenager is a star student at Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum, a free after-school program based at the Compton Airport.
The 2009 census showed a rise in free school meal pupils from 15.5% to 15.9% in primary schools and from 13.1% to 13.4% in secondary.
There will also be a multi-million pound pilot project, involving about 60, 000 pupils, aimed at helping schools with a high proportion of children who get free school meals to offer a much wider range of extra-curricular activities.
The prospect of free morning meals has been brought a step closer, with the Welsh Assembly Government announcing that every primary school child will get a free meal by September 2006.
Bedford Borough Council has withdrawn a notice against Bedford Free School that could have forced pupils to move out.
BBC: Enforcement notice against Bedford Free School withdrawn
The Scottish Borders was one of the parts of Scotland which took part in a pilot programme of free school meals in primaries.
"It was basically a free ride to a school that probably I wouldn't have been able to afford if there were no scholarship, " said Zolp.
Matters are complicated by a second group of parents, which plans to bid for a non-selective free school to be established on the same site as the proposed new grammar.
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