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Tories may allow schools to select by raceMelissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor, Sunday TelegraphLast Updated: 12:34am BST 27/05/2007Some schools would be allowed to select pupils by race under plans being drawn up by the Conservatives. David Willetts, the shadow education secretary, has told colleagues he wants to enable the most popular city academies to choose pupils not by ability but by a range of other criteria.The most controversial of those would allow schools in ethnically diverse areas to take 50 per cent of pupils from the black community and 50 per cent from the white.The race quota would be welcomed by inner-city schools eager to improve integration. But it would be bound to infuriate traditional Tories still reeling from David Cameron's decision to rule out building more grammar schools. Instead, the Tory leader pledged a vast expansion in Tony Blair's city academies programme.One problem raised by Tory opponents of the scheme is the question of how a Conservative government would handle the desire of parents to send their children to the most successful academies. advertisementMr Willetts is looking at selection by "banding", the controversial system by which pupils are tested and placed in ability bands. Schools are then given set numbers for each band.One senior Tory source explained: "We are aware that some city academies would be more popular than others. That's why David [Willetts] made clear in his speech how it would be possible for the best ones to expand or even to set up additional academies themselves."The existing banding system would work. But there would also be city academies that chose pupils on the basis of faith. And you could have academies where there was selection by ethnicity."Today, a senior member of the shadow cabinet rumoured to have concerns on schools policy breaks his silence to back Mr Cameron.In an article in this newspaper, Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, says: "Grammars represent only a tiny number of our schools. We need to try to replicate their successful recipe in under-performing schools."
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