(in the UK) denoting a voluntary school that is funded mainly by the local authority.
（英国）（学校）受助民办的（由地方当局提供大部分资金）
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There is no question that voluntary-aided schools provide good education.
The voluntary-aided school, which means it is subsidised by a religious organisation, has 144 pupils and employs ten teachers and 15 support staff.
He said he was looking forward to welcoming next year's intake at the school as the first group of Jewish Grammar boys to be taught in a voluntary-aided school.
Of the 15 secondary schools in the town, four have voluntary-aided status, two are Church of England and two Roman Catholic and nearly half of the 66 primary schools are church schools.
It is the only voluntary-aided Church of England secondary school in the Diocese of York and attracts pupils from a wide area.
All Rochdale's Catholic schools are voluntary-aided, with the church paying 10 per cent towards the school budget.
The announcement was part of an £85 million three-year package for voluntary-aided schools across the country.
Governors, staff, parents and pupils at the voluntary-aided school are pleased with the news.
Foundation and voluntary-aided schools are responsible for drawing up their own term times but it is hoped they will embrace the new calendar, which is being introduced from September 2005.
The dispute had started over whether a Jewish voluntary-aided school should be established in Leeds and had since become one about whether the council should fund transport to Jewish schools elsewhere.
But, a bid by the school governors for voluntary-aided status has been all-but guaranteed by the council's organisation committee - as long as the school was prepared to wait until September next year.
A North Pembrokeshire community could make history by setting up the country's first Welsh social enterprise co-operative voluntary-aided school.
The voluntary-aided school planned to move to its new premises in Gatton Road at the beginning of September.
Most of the £1 million comes from a Government pot to help voluntary-aided schools.
To access the government cash, voluntary-aided schools have to raise 10 per cent of the building costs themselves.
It is a voluntary-aided Muslim school, making it the Islamic equivalent of Catholic secondaries.