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DEFIANT parents chained themselves and their children to the entrance of a north-west London primary school yesterday in solidarity with staff striking against the school’s privatisation.
St Andrew and St Francis Church of England Primary School in Willesden is being turned into an academy after a rushed consultation process that parents believed “tricked” them to support the change.
Today teachers will enter their third day of strike action after first walking out a week ago.
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK