The government will have the final say over whether several single-sex grammar schools can start admitting both boys and girls. The South East Advisory board, part of the Department for Education (DfE), has deferred a decision about whether three Medway grammar schools should become mixed-sex. The board met on April 18 and discussed plans for girls’ schools Fort Pitt Grammar and Chatham Grammar, as well as Holcombe Grammar, a boys’ school, to go co-educational. But ultimately it decided the issue should be “escalated” to the Minister for Schools, Damian Hinds MP (Con) for a decision. Notes fro…
