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In 1902 Parliament passed a new Education Act that abolished the School Boards and transferred their schools, and those of the religious organisations, to the County and County Borough Councils. While the schools in Plymouth and Devonport passed to their respective County Borough Councils, the ones in the East Stonehouse Urban District Council area and the outlying parishes of St Budeaux, Tamerton Foliot, Eggbuckland, Plympton St Mary, Plympton St Maurice and Plymstock all passed to the Devon County Council. LINKS to individual schools will follow. When the Urban District of East Stonehouse was amalgamated with Devonport and Plymouth in November 1914, the schools passed from the County to the Plymouth Local Education Committee. Gradually, as Plymouth expanded its boundary, those in the remainder of St Budeaux and Eggbuckland, together with Tamerton Foliot were taken over by the Plymouth Local Education Authority. At the start of the Second World War a coalition government was formed under the leadership of Mr (later Sir) Winston Churchill. His Ministers started to plan for a new Britain when hostilities ceased and one of their reforms was Mr Rab Butler's Education Act of 1944, which marked the start of the post-war reorganisation of education. The schools in Plympton and Plymstock remained under Devon County Council until those areas were amalgamated into the City of Plymouth on April 1st 1967.
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