maintained school


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maintained school

n
(Education) a school financially supported by the state
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maintained school

[meɪnˈteɪndˌskuːl] N (Brit) → colegio m estatal or público
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maintained school

n (Brit) → staatliche Schule
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The revolutionists maintained schools of acting in all their refuges.
Merefield School in Southport is a maintained school for pupils aged two to 19, with severe, profound, multiple and complex learning difficulties.
But Mr Frankland says that Eston Park remains a maintained school.
Every maintained school in the UK can apply for bursaries which cover fees, accommodation and teaching cover.
"This means that they are public authorities within the meaning of the Human Rights Act, and therefore the same safeguards are in place that exist for every other maintained school."
"We would recommend in the interests of safety that approval should not be granted to requests for the erection of base stations within Catholic maintained school grounds."
This type of school quite clearly breaks from the controlled and maintained school system of management.
Education minister Nadhim Zahawi said no maintained school knows its funding after March 2020, noting it is a "difficult place to be".
A two-day judicial review has been heard at Swansea's civil justice centre challenging the council's decision to scrap free transport for pupils attending voluntary-aided faith schools in Swansea, except when they live more than two miles (primary) or three miles (secondary) from the school and there is no nearer alternative maintained school.
Coun Bowden asks: "How do Whitchurch governors intend to raise the pounds 9m investment that the council would otherwise have invested in the school's learning environment?" Perhaps she is unaware that it the duty of the local authority to ensure that all maintained schools (including foundation schools) are fit for purpose and that Whitchurch High School would obviously need (as the council has highlighted it) this level of investment whether it is a community or maintained school.
In Redcar and Cleveland during 2002-3, 89 families set out to overturn the failure to get a maintained school place, of whom 70 got a hearing and 25 were successful.