{"id":68876,"date":"2018-03-06T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68876"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:18:06","slug":"telegraph-dont-let-faith-schools-take-in-more-pupils-on-the-basis-of-religion-leaders-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68876","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Don&#8217;t let faith schools take in more pupils on the basis of religion, leaders warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith schools must not be allowed to admit more children on the basis of religion, leaders have warned. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Daily Telegraph a group of 70 faith leaders, politicians and academics warned that lifting a cap which stops new faith schools admitting more than 50 per cent of children on the basis of religion would be &#8220;deleterious to social cohesion and respect&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The signatories, led by former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK, warn that the policy, promised in the Conservative manifesto, &#8220;allows schools to label children at the start of their lives with certain beliefs and then divide them up on that basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/03\/05\/dont-let-faith-schools-take-pupils-basis-religion-leaders-warn\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith schools must not be allowed to admit more children on the basis of religion, leaders have warned. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph a group of 70 faith leaders, politicians and academics warned that lifting a cap which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68876\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,111,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","category-education","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68878,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68876\/revisions\/68878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}