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The schools secretary, Ed Balls, will today announce an emergency £200m plan to build hundreds of new classrooms and ease a growing crisis in the primary school admissions system.
The funding comes amid claims by councils that the recession is forcing up demand for state school places. One in five local authorities say they face exceptional rises in demand for primary places as parents chose state instead of private schools to save money and fewer move house when their child starts school.
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