Direct-grant schools selected their pupils by academic ability, with the state paying the fees of those who could not afford them.
This flexibility might have echoes of the former direct grant schools, or the new academy schools, being pioneered in England by the government.
Grant maintained schools had been abolished in an act of educational madness.
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The commission will be chaired by Sir Robert Balchin, a former chairman of the former Grant Maintained Schools Foundation, appointed under a Conservative government.
As part of a School Improvement Grant, schools may budget funds for a partnerships coordinator who can work directly for the school or for a community-based nonprofit partner.
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It was mainly funded by Eastleigh Borough Council and a Partnership for Schools grant.
They then abolished the system of grant-maintained schools, whereby state schools were allowed to opt out of local-authority control.
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As an example of New Labour's confusion, it claims to have effectively restored the status of grant-maintained schools by funnelling more money directly to schools from the Treasury.
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Free nursery hours were introduced in England by Labour and funded by extra money paid by government into the local schools grant to be distributed by local authorities.
Two thousand low paid staff in grammar and grant maintained integrated schools who did not get the original payment will also receive the payment from the department - they will get a double payment.
There are now 138 accredited allopathic medical schools that grant M.
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He said the process was being complicated because money for the scheme was being fed through a grant made specifically for schools, which was causing a "bureaucratic shuffle".
Larger fundamentalist schools charge fees and grant scholarships, but smaller ones have a different approach.
Welsh government policy is that parents should not normally take pupils on holiday during term time but schools have the discretion to grant up to 10 days authorised absence for this purpose.
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The fact remains, however, that under the current Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations, schools have discretion "to grant leave of absence for purposes of family holidays" in term time, for up to 10 days a year.
Alternatively schools could be given a per-capita grant, as in Ireland.
Overall some 44% of those on the list went to independent school, 27% to grammar school, 8% to a former direct grant school and 21% to comprehensives and other state schools.
Parents in poor areas were offered the choice of transferring their children to wealthier schools, but capacity limits made many such requests impossible to grant.
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He added that the grant ensured the TDA would be able to fully support the drive to modernise schools as well as allocate more money towards recruiting teachers in key areas and improving their training.
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The issue came to a head in December when the city sought to qualify for a federal grant program by testing out the new evaluation system on a set of 33 failing schools.
Musicians' bodies have raised concerns about this and have lobbied for the music grant to keep the budgetary protection that was introduced by a previous Labour government to stop schools spending the money on items like leaky roofs.
The previous Conservative UK government set up an additional category of self-governing schools opting to be managed entirely by a board of management and funded by direct government grant.
In an interview with the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps pointed out that Mrs Hutchings, her husband and two of their three children, had gone to state schools.
They are loth to grant Silesians the sort of rights granted to other ethnic minorities, who have provisions for keeping up their languages in schools and for making it easier to win seats in parliament.
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