Definition of "EAZ"

EAZ

noun
plural EAZs
1. (UK, education) Initialism of Education Action Zone, any of various areas of England considered for special assistance in increasing the quality or availability of educational opportunities, instituted by New Labour.
  Quotations
  Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
  2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement