Prime Minister John Howard has described as lunacy a proposal to slash the number of selective high schools in New South Wales.
The recommendation was made by a committee set up to review the public education system.
Under the plans, all but 11 of the state’s 28 selective high schools would have to admit most students from their local areas instead of selecting them on the basis of academic test results.
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