§ SIR WILLIAM ANSON (Oxford University)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education if he can state how many local education authorities have passed resolutions under Article 43 of the Regulations for Secondary Schools; what schools have been the subject of these resolutions; what are the conditions which the Board has been asked in each case to waive; and what action the Board has taken in response to the requests of the local authorities.
§ MR. McKENNAA considerable number of resolutions passed by local education authorities under Article 13 of the Regulations for Secondary Schools have reached, and are still reaching, the Board of Education. The total number of authorities from whom such resolutions have been received is thirty-six. Some of these resolutions have already been considered by the Board, and they have thought fit in the case of fourteen schools to waive one or more of the conditions imposed by the new Regulations for 1907. They have not thought fit to waive any of the conditions referred to in the resolutions as regards three schools at Southampton, Bury, and Peterborough, respectively. The greater number of the resolutions are still under consideration, and a full return showing for each school the articles which the Board were asked to waive and their decision as regards each article will be laid before Parliament when the process is complete. It is hoped that the return will be ready in the course of April.