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1. 21. Call for more free childcare places

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 08 November 2006 EDUCATION Secretary Alan Johnson faced calls today for more free childcare places to be given to families in poor areas. The Daycare Trust urged ministers to abandon their plans to "water down" the ratios of staff to children in nurseries.

2. 22. Ministers lose powers in sex offender row

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 15 January 2006 MINISTERS are to be stripped of their power to decide whether sex offenders should be cleared to teach in British schools, it was reported today.

3. 23. Strike threat over school reforms

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 16 April 2006 BRITAIN'S biggest teachers' union threatened a national strike over Tony Blair's controversial school reforms.

4. 24. £36billion refurbishment for schools

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 06 December 2006 CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown today announced a four-year é36 billion programme of refurbishment and rebuilding to make England's schools and colleges "fit for the 21st century".

5. 25. Five-year-old expelled from school

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 October 2006 A GIRL of five has been expelled from her school. Tamara Howard is believed to be the youngest child to be permanently excluded in Greater Manchester after being accused of attacking her teachers.

6. 26. Super-head Jean is sacked

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 August 2006 A 'SUPER-HEAD' earning é140,000 a year has been sacked over a damning report into her running of a Manchester school.

7. 27. Kids top truancy tables yet again

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 September 2006 MORE children are missing classes in Manchester than anywhere else in England. Government statistics released yesterday show city pupils have the poorest attendance levels in the country for the third year running.

8. 28. Hopes high for 'media college'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 02 February 2006 A SALFORD school could be relocated to the city's Quays and turned into a "media college".

9. 29. City academy sponsors yet to pay up

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 May 2006 ONE of the Government's flagship city academies in Greater Manchester has yet to receive any of the money promised by their sponsors, it has been reported.

10. 30. New schools boss in vow to parents

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 May 2006 THE man in charge of Manchester's schools has promised to work with parents to improve classroom results.

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