Schools∗: Building on Success -- A personal response.

Abstract: This paper looks at the issue of selection from a local authority perspective. The author begins with the Green Paper, which she describes as a cleverly finessed party manifesto. Yet it still allowed a wide range of people to be broadly s upportive of its ideas. The author looks in detail at four areas: specialist schools, the role of the LEA, the central position of teachers and greater delegation. She concludes by wondering whether the present government is replacing the traditional rou te to compulsion by legislation with the use of financial sticks and carrots. Those who follow the supported view get extra resources. Those who do not are ineligible for extra funds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]