council backs one of rival bids for grammar school with £75,000

Kent on-line reports:


Kent County Council has signed a legal agreement with Valley Invicta Academy Trust in Maidstone. The agreement commits the authority to cover the school’s costs for submitting a formal bid to the Department for Education to sponsor the new grammar annexe planned for Sevenoaks. Liberal Democrat group leader Cllr Trudy Dean said: “I do not think it is appropriate to financially support an application from a school independent of the council. The council should not be supporting one school when it has had interest from others.”

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