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Essex Archive

Council has ‘no powers’ to get more local children into Essex’s best state schools

Local councillors admitted they had no powers to meet demands to increase the number of children attending Essex's top perfoming grammar schools

Essex council urged to do more to help children get into grammar schools

A Southend councillor has called for more to be done to get children into the city's four grammar schools

Chelmsford grammar school admissions policy ruled unfair

A top Essex grammar school will have to change parts of its admissions policies which had been imposed to stop parents from gaming the system