Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant or EMAG - that's the replacement for the old Section 11, right? Yep. Created in 1998, it dishes out money to schools to help them meet the particular needs of pupils for whom English is an additional language and to raise standards for minority ethnic groups that are particularly at risk of underachieving.
Is it working then? Sorry, wrong report. There are evaluation reports on this grant scheme but this isn't one. This is an account of visits by some of Her Majesty's Inspectors to a small number of schools that were thought to be making good use of the grants. In other words, schools with good or strongly improving standards by minority ethnic pupils and a head teacher who understands the issues and has a clear vision with respect to achievement.
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