Grant Maintained Schools: Education in the Market Place Book

	Acknowledgments	7
	Introduction	9
1	Origins and Development of the Policy	17
	Origins of the policy	18
	Policy objectives	22
	Formulating and implementing opting out	24
	The policy unfolds	28
2	Patterns of Opting Out	33
	The scale of opting out	33
	The pace of opting out	34
	Opting out and school closures	35
	The distribution of opting out	38
	Types of GM secondary school	43
3	Local Education Authorities and Opting Out	48
	Breaking the LEA monopoly	48
	Period of consultation	49
	LEAs' actual experience of opted-out schools	52
4	Headteachers and Opting Out	61
	Factors influencing a move towards GM status	63
	The advantages of opting out	71
	Opting for a 'traditional' education?	73
5	Parents, Pupils and Grant-maintained Schools	75
	Diversity, choice and parental participation	75
	Research methods and data set	76
	GM schools: parents and pupils as 'choosers'	77
	GM schools: parents and pupils as 'users'	82
6	Opting Out and the Education Market	86
	Wellchester and Milltown: two micro-markets	87
	First-choice realization	88
	State and private schooling	91
	School choice and social class	91
	GM status and reputation management	93
	Pupil perceptions of opting out	95
7	The Policy's Long-term Implications	100
	The 1992 Education White Paper	100
	The White Paper and the future of LEAs	108
	From aptitude to ability?	111
	Issues for parents and governors	112
	Appendix 1: Categories of Social Class	118
	Appendix 2: Contact Addresses and Sources of Information	119
	Appendix 3: Glossary of Key Terms	123
	References	126
	Index	135