School Standards and Framework Act 1998

• imposed a limit of 30 on infant class sizes.
• abolished grant-maintained schools, introducing foundation status.
• provided for a schedule of fully selective state schools, and set up a procedure by which local communities could vote for their abolition. No grammar schools have yet been abolished using this mechanism.
• prohibited the expansion of partially [selective school (England)|partial selection] but allowed some specialist schools to admit 10% of pupils based on aptitude in their subject specialisms.
• introduced super headteachers and Education Action Zones
• introduced an Admissions Code and the office of Schools Adjudicator to enforce this Code and consider objections to admission arrangements.
• introduced a right of appeal against the refusal of an admission authority to offer an applicant child a place at the relevant school.
• expanded on the requirement that "each pupil in attendance at a community, foundation or voluntary school shall on each school day take part in an act of collective worship" of a “wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character” for community schools.
• created the local School Organisation Committee to decide school organisation proposals and responsible for approving the local School Organisation Plan. The School Organisation Committee consisted of five voting groups:
• banned corporal punishment in all schools.