{"id":2628,"date":"2019-10-28T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2019-11-02T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T10:12:47","slug":"grammar-school-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Grammar school consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kent County Council is seeking views on a proposal to expand Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys by increasing the Published Admission Number (PAN) from 210 places to 300 places, facilitated by the establishment of a satellite of the school on the Wildernesse site in Sevenoaks from September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public consultation will run for a period of 6 weeks from 28<sup>th<\/sup> October 2019 and will conclude at midday on 6<sup>th<\/sup> December 2019.  You can take part by emailing your thoughts to <a href=\"mailto:school.consultations@kent.gov.uk\">school.consultations@kent.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcoming the consultation, Sir Michael said: \u201cThis could be the key breakthrough.&nbsp; Far too many boys from the Sevenoaks area have to travel back and forwards to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells, at a huge cost in both time and money.&nbsp; If it was right to have the girls\u2019 annex, then it must be right to provide for boys too. &nbsp;&nbsp;Grammar schools should be allowed to expand like any other school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent County Council is seeking views on a proposal to expand Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys by increasing the Published Admission Number (PAN) from 210 places to 300 places, facilitated by the establishment of a satellite of the school on the Wildernesse site in Sevenoaks from September 2021. The public consultation will run for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grammar school consultation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10,744,569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}