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Kids facing places crisis as one in four schools ‘bursting’

TORY education policies have left one in four of England’s primary schools full or over capacity, Labour reveals today as parents discover where their child will study from September.

The party’s analysis of official figures lays bare the full extent of the escalating school places crisis on national “offer day.”

The Conservative Party promised to create “small schools with smaller class sizes” in the 2010 manifesto and David Cameron has said: “The more we can get class sizes down the better.”

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