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The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) told journalists that Alan Johnson had briefed his colleagues on the GCSE results which showed that the number of secondary schools that did not meet the GCSE threshold that now fallen to 47 out of over 3200 schools. That compared to a figure of 600 in 1997. There were 500 schools where less than 25% of pupils did not get five good GCSEs with English and Maths in 2006, compared with 1,262 in 1997. We raised the bar to place greater emphasis on English and Maths within the target.

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