The centre-left Social Market Foundation (SMF) and the right-leaning Policy Exchange will use a seminar next week to back a scheme under which pupils pay up to 1 a day. Jessica Assato, researcher at the SMF, said: "Anything more than a pound and it becomes counter-productive because it's too expensive."
The think-tanks want to see provisions for a national school bus system included in the forthcoming Education Bill and have enlisted MPs from across the political parties who could be willing to table an amendment if necessary.
Former cabinet minister Stephen Byers and Barry Sheerman, chair of the education and skills select committee in the previous Parliament, are both understood to be backing the idea, which was developed by the Sutton Trust.
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