Lotteries used to break middle-class hold on school places

By Graeme Paton. Traditional catchment areas are being dismantled in England's inner-cities in favour of lotteries and banding systems designed to stop middle-class families dominating places. Tens of thousands of children face losing the automatic right to a place at their local secondary school amid a surge in the number of comprehensives using lottery-style admissions policies. Read more...