SCHOOLS should prepare for a “crucial election for education,” the leader of the National Union of Teachers said yesterday.
Closing the union’s last conference before it merges with the ATL in Cardiff yesterday, Kevin Courtney warned that new grammar schools were likely to be central to the Tories’ manifesto.
Mr Courtney, who had previously warned that the government was likely to expand selection via the back door, said the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday of an early poll was “a challenge that our union will rise to.”
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