Shake-up for boy pupils and weak schools.

From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) | Date: December 9, 1998 | Copyright information

FAR-reaching education plans to take Dudley schools into the new Millennium have been unveiled.

Top priorities include raising standards in literacy, improving the performance of boys and developing numeracy skills for all children.

Other key moves will see direct action taken by the LEA to help schools shown as 'weak' or put under special measures by Office of Standards in Education inspectors.

Under the new proposals school governors will also be ...

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