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3 unusual facts about LEAS


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Terrence Leas, American academic and community college president

Leas Lift, a funicular railway in Folkestone, Kent, England

The Leas, a large area of land owned by the National Trust along the coastal cliffs of South Shields, England


Bobby Jack Fowler

Jennifer Esson, 16 and Kara Leas, 16 are last seen walking on NW 56th Street in Newport, Oregon walking toward Highway 101 near Moolack Beach after leaving a friends house.

Circular 10/65

As a result, a number of LEAs otherwise supporting the tripartite system, such as Bromley and Surrey, felt forced to go comprehensive.

Direct grant grammar school

The grant system was restructured when the Board of Education was created in 1901 to fund early secondary schools, and the Education Act 1902 gave counties and county boroughs responsibility for schools, designating them as Local Education Authorities (LEAs).

Dread Dragon Droom

Humberside was part of a consortium of LEAs (the others being Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and, for a time, Wakefield) which established a regional support centre called RESOURCE, based in Doncaster.

Irish National Congress

The future TDs Mary Lou McDonald and Finian McGrath both served as Leas-Chathaoirleach (Vice-Chair) in the organisation in the mid-90s.

Paul Edmondson

While traveling south on rain-soaked U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara, California on February 13, 1970, the day after his 27th birthday, his automobile skidded and crashed into oncoming northbound traffic, killing Edmondson and his passenger, Lauraine Leas, 22, of Simi Valley, CA.

Peter Housden

After graduating in 1973, Peter Housden began his career as a comprehensive school teacher in Shropshire and worked as an education officer in three county LEAs before being appointed as Director of Education in Nottinghamshire in 1991.


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