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School funding: Still they do nothing...

The noise being made over the school funding crisis has become deafening, yet still the government is choosing to ignore the evidence, says Kevin Courtney

The school funding crisis has been widely reported, demonstrations and rallies have been held drawing attention to the issue and MPs, the education secretary, the prime minister and the chancellor have all been written to.

Yet still government does nothing. As a consequence children and young people’s education continues to suffer and the working conditions of teachers and support staff deteriorate.

As government will not listen to the thousands of voices from both parents and the profession who have raised their serious concerns the National Education Union (NEU), National Association of Head Teachers, and the Association of School and College Leaders have taken the unprecedented step of consulting their members at the same time asking what the next step in our campaign to ensure all our schools are properly funded should be.

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