Obama and Rachael Ray will host a cooking competition between school chefs to highlight the new healthier school lunches.

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And earlier this year another London council, Haringey, competed to open a school under new rules and won the competition (which it ran itself).

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But Sergei Guriev, head of the New Economic School in Moscow, says that it would at least expose corruption and increase competition, deeply alien to Russia's ruling bureaucracy.

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Ian Hookway and other members of the Save Trentham High Action Group want to force a competition, giving interested parties - including themselves - the opportunity to help decide the type of new school they will get as well as who will run it.

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