Two Chester Free Schools given government approval

SEPARATE plans to create two ‘free schools’ in Chester have been given Government approval to open in September 2013.

Both the proposed University Cathedral School – based in one of the historic buildings in Abbey Square – and St Martin’s Academy discovered today (Friday, July 13) that they had been successful in securing crucial funding from the Department for Education.

In total, the Government has given the green light for 102 free schools to open next year – an increase of 50% on the number approved in 2011.

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