Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In Britain, the term maintained school is short for grant-maintained, meaning that its funding comes from the local education authority. In common parlance this means it is a state school, whether a comprehensive, grammar or secondary modern. Maintained schools must follow various rules, such as following the National Curriculum and abiding by Section 28. Fee-paying private schools (sometimes called public schoolss) are not funded by the state, and so are not subject to all of the same rules. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.