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Report of The Remembrancer.

Members considered a report of the Remembrancer regarding the Education and Adoption Bill. The Remembrancer clarified the emerging definition of what constituted a ‘coasting’ school. For primaries it would be when fewer than 85% of pupils achieve Level 4 in reading, writing and maths. For secondary schools is would be where fewer than 60% of pupils achieve five A-C grades alongside an assessment of how ‘median’ pupils were progressing. These assessments would be made over a 3 year period and not on a single Ofsted report.

On the proposed growth free schools and academies in, the Chairman commented that the Department for Education would, over the course of the Parliament, be under pressure to identify a sufficient number of sponsors for those institutions.

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