May's pet project grammar school expansion fails on its own terms - Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the UCL Institute of Education’s report showing the Government’s grammar school funding will not improve children's outcomes, said:

“This is simply the latest evidence that the Prime Minister’s pet project of grammar school expansion will fail even on its own terms.

“Additional funding for grammar schools will do nothing to improve the outcomes of the children who attend them, but each new grammar school effectively creates new secondary moderns, a two-tier school system that robs the majority of children of the opportunities that they deserve.

“Instead of pushing ahead with this discredited and divisive policy, the Conservatives should give every child the support they need, by reversing their cuts to school budgets and giving our teachers the pay rise they deserve.”