Opting Out
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Summary: Education programme.
Title number: 1635
LSA ID: LSA/2151
Description: Baker's proposals for open enrolment so schools revert back to accepting the number of children it did in 1979. Mention of the "Dewsbury Affair", interviews with representatives from Kent and Dewsbury schools as well as parents. Looking at objections to the proposals and fears that schools would be all white or all black and overcrowded. Followed by a panel decision in studio. No reference to Brent.
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Keywords: education; admission requirements; school integration
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