Kent on Line: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway_messenger/news/no-new-grammar-places-for-10207/
"In a statement, the Department for Education said: "The Education Funding Agency has today written to Weald of Kent Academy Trust and Valley Invicta Academy Trust with a decision on their proposals for grammar school provision in Sevenoaks, Kent.
"The assessment is that the proposals do not represent an expansion of the existing schools and therefore cannot be approved."
In a letter to the Invicta Trust outlining the reasons for its decision, the EFA says: "We have not received any evidence that demonstrates Sevenoaks children currently travel to Invicta Grammar School. We would expect expansions to respond to
demand from their existing community.""
(Two grammar schools had been bidding to open a new academy run according to grammar school rules - to do so had to outflank laws preventing the opening of new selective schools: http://newschoolsnetwork.org/sites/default/files/files/pdf/Differences%20across%20school%20types.pdf)
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