This research shows that half of England's state schools are keeping these doors firmly shut to girls.
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State schools do not play enough competitive sport at a high level, it has been warned.
Private schools recruit, for the most part, from the same teacher training "colleges" as state schools.
Academies are independent state schools with outside partners, high levels of investment and greater autonomy.
He proposes to put the national government, rather than municipalities, in charge of state schools.
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Too many children in state schools do not have access to excellent teaching and materials.
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Free schools are semi-independent state schools set up and run by parents, teachers and charities.
The federal government can get local and state schools to do a better job.
Corporal punishment was outlawed in state schools in 1986, but remained legal in independent schools.
Again, only those from particular state schools or with a difficult family background are eligible.
In 2010, the coalition said state schools should be allowed to enter pupils for IGCSEs.
The proportion of students from state schools, now 42%, has hardly changed since 1970.
Many fee-paying independent schools offer scholarships or subsidised places or share their facilities with local state schools.
The lack of difference in value between state schools and the more prestigious private colleges is compelling.
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The local authorities which oversee most London state schools dislike any form of selection in school admissions.
In England, the increase has followed a lifting of a ban which stopped state schools from entering pupils for them.
Offa said Exeter has historically performed below targets for students from state schools and from low income backgrounds.
That's why we're developing a robust and radical plan for reforming state schools, addressing both standards and structures.
Up to the age of 16, about 93% of children in the UK go to state schools.
The strike started last week, but it has since escalated, with state schools also affected, our reporter says.
Hamilton found less of an impact on grades at more elite colleges than at other private out-of-state schools.
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France bans the garment altogether from state schools, citing Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Cricket Foundation runs the Chance to Shine initiative, which aims to encourage the playing of competitive cricket in state schools.
If many pupils leave mainstream state schools, more of the latter will become unsustainable as their rolls fall.
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We continually hear of superior resident students being rejected by in-State universities and being forced to attend out-of-State schools.
And state schools would not consider offering Latin if there were only a handful of interested students, he said.
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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Poor youngsters who attend the mainly awful state schools usually end up in these places, paying through the nose.
They reopen this week, along with state schools, where the academic year was delayed to prepare for the flu.
This allows public schools to deploy twice as many teachers per pupil at every age as in state schools.
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