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June 25, 2011

The Telegraph: Church to break middle class stranglehold on oversubscribed schools

by Jonathan Wynne-Jones
The Telegraph

Parents who "gold plate" their membership of the Church by worshipping every week and volunteering to help at church will no longer get priority over less regular congregation members for classroom places for their children.

The measures will end "points systems" under which classroom places are offered to children whose families are most involved in the church.

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