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Type: IFS Press Releases Authors: Haroon Chowdry, Alastair Muriel and Luke Sibieta
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Local authorities in England allocate only around half the extra resources that Whitehall pays them to educate children from disadvantaged backgrounds to the schools that those children actually attend, choosing to spread the extra resources over all pupils in their area instead, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies funded by CfBT Education Trust. Search |
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