Original sentence: One of the larger ones, the Liverpool Christian Fellowship School, made national headlines in 2001 when they led a campaign (backed by 40 other schools) to retain their right to use caning or other corporal punishments, outlawed in 1999, in order to halt what they felt was a decline of discipline within schools
Edited sentence: One of the larger ones, the Liverpool Christian Fellowship School, made national headlines in 2001 when they led a campaign (backed by 40 other schools) to halt the decline of discipline within schools and retain their right to use the cane as a threat of punishment