The change, they said, had been forced on them by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator, set up in 1998 to police admissions.
The report also recommends school data on admissions to be made widely available and analysed by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) to identify any segregation.
Judith Simmonds, who has taught at Pott Row First for 18 years, said supporters battled to keep the smaller schools open ahead of the Schools Adjudicator's final decision in March.
The Department for Education and Skills said that, now the co-ordinated admissions scheme had been finalised, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator would decide whether or not schools could use those criteria in the coming year.
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The government has considered and rejected, the option of introducing an independent adjudicator as exists in England.
It has emerged that the adjudicator was concerned about the use of such a blunt accusation against the Richard Rogers Partnership.
Then MPs will complete their consideration of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill which has been plodding through Parliament since last May.
The bill is intended to stop the large supermarkets' squeezing their suppliers and the Adjudicator will enforce the groceries supply code of practice and will have the power fine retailers that do not treat their suppliers lawfully and fairly.
All of the bills (except the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill) saw government defeats in the Lords, and it will be interesting to see whether the coalition wants to reverse all of the defeats, or whether it will take some of them on the chin.
Lady Deech, a former independent adjudicator for higher education, said universities "took refuge behind freedom of speech" and did not realise they were "constrained by recent legislation".
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