1. We are grateful to Jenny Williams for making available some materials collected during her research into Manchester LEA’s move towards anti-racist education policies. Parts of the chapter originally appeared in an article by Wendy Ball and Barry Troyna in Educational Management and Administration, vol. 17, no.1, 1989. We’d like to thank the British Education Management and Administration Society for permission to reproduce some of that article.
2. For further details see Gulam (1986).
3. At the time of writing (July 1989) the authority has been told of a further cut of £5 million from its education budget over 18 months.
4. Grimshaw, B. in ‘City Wide’, MEC publication, Spring 1988: p. 144.
5. Stringer, G. quoted in the New Statesman, 5 February 1988: p. 13.