And the emphasis on good discipline and traditional curriculum fits in well with the vision of Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has long been a visitor to the school - as were Labour education secretaries before him.

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Mr Bush joined the Miami Urban League, a black-led organisation, to finance and run the school in the belief that its emphasis on basic learning and discipline would make it a model for the state.

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In fact, the commission has little practical leeway to depart much from the emphasis on budgetary discipline laid down by the euro zone's paymasters, led by Germany.

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