City Comes Out Fighting in Bid to Get Schools Off the Bottom ; Derby Schools Have Come Bottom of Primary League Tables Nationally. Zena Hawley Asks What Should Happen to Primary Education in the City?

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NEWS that Derby was joint bottom of league tables for 11-year- olds should have come as no surprise to many people.

Twelve months ago, the then Labour Government named and shamed the city as one of 12 local authorities failing to give an adequate standard of primary education.

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City Comes Out Fighting in Bid to Get Schools Off the Bottom ; Derby Schools Have Come Bottom of Primary League Tables Nationally. Zena Hawley Asks What Should Happen to Primary Education in the City?

Inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education recently gave the authority a "performs adequately" rating, partially based on poor primary performance.

And Government figures have, u...

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