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School zone. A speed limit sign entering a school zone, along with a warning light above, in Calabasas, California. A solar powered school zone sign used in New South Wales, Australia. A school zone refers to an area on a street near a school or near a crosswalk leading to a school that has a likely presence of younger pedestrians.
Education in England is overseen by the Department for Education. Local government authorities are responsible for implementing policy for public education and state-funded schools at a local level. State-funded schools may be selective grammar schools or non-selective comprehensive schools. All state schools are subject to assessment and ...
Education in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under separate governments. The UK Government is responsible for England, whilst the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive are responsible for Scotland, [6] Wales [7] and Northern Ireland, respectively.
BESA, the British Educational Suppliers Association, has more up-to-date figures. It states that in 2019, there aill be approximately 30,000 schools in England, which include 391 nurseries, around 25,000 primary schools, 3,448 secondary schools, 2,319 independent schools, 1,044 special schools, and 352 pupil referral units.
References to middle schools in publications of the UK Government date back to 1856, and the educational reports of William Henry Hadow mention the concept. [6] It was not until 1963 that a local authority, the West Riding of Yorkshire, first proposed to introduce a middle-school system, with schools spanning ages 5–9, 9–13 and 13–18; [7] one source suggests that the system was ...
The Labour government of Tony Blair introduced Education Action Zones (EAZs) through the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. [15] They centred around groups of local schools in deprived areas and were supposed to improve educational standards in cooperation with local businesses. 25 zones were designated in the 1998/1999 academic year ...
Endowed schools have a long history. The oldest, having been founded in 597 as a cathedral school, is King's School, Canterbury.Over time a group of the endowed schools became known as "public schools" to differentiate from private teaching by tutors and to indicate that they were open to the public regardless of religious beliefs, locality and social status. [4]
LEAs considered grammar areas are shown filled, while circles indicate isolated grammar schools or clusters of neighbouring schools. This is a list of the current 163 state-funded fully selective schools (grammar schools) in England, as enumerated by Statutory Instrument. [2] [3] [4] The 1998