ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an outline account of how the 1993 Education Act's legislation on sponsored grant-maintained schools developed up to the General Election of 1997. The resulting 1993 Education Act that followed the White Paper in part echoed this statement by enabling sponsors or promoters to apply to establish new grant-maintained schools. Within England, the process that sponsors had to follow was gradually developed over a period of several years by the Funding Agency for Schools (FAS) and the Department for Education (DFE). The FAS was established through the same 1993 Education Act and came into existence in April 1994. In essence, the private school had to close and a new school open in its place. Arrangements could be made so that teachers could have their contracts transferred from the private school to the new school, but these contracts had to be on the same standard terms and conditions as throughout the state sector.
