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Look, CSU and all regional comprehensives in this country have a budget problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

From BASIS’s first year in 1996-1997, students who failed the comprehensives had to retake them.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2019

Then, in the mid-1960s, the Labour government sped up their conversion into comprehensives.

From Economist • Aug. 11, 2016

Overall some 44% of those on the list went to independent school, 27% to grammar school, 8% to a former direct grant school and 21% to comprehensives and other state schools.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2012

Katharine Birbalsingh has taught in London comprehensives for over 10 years and this diary of a typical year in one of those schools will confirm every parent's worst fears.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2011