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Why Schools are Charities
Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Matthew Burgess, under Politics, Private Schools, Private Schools and Charitable Status, Public AffairsMost of us will have opinions about independent schools. It’s also very likely that we think we know what charity means. Put together these two preconceptions, and it’s easy to see why there is such a spectrum of views about whether schools…