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TEACHERS could strike if the school funding squeeze is not addressed in the autumn Budget, their largest union warned yesterday.
Ahead of a debate on the issue today, National Union of Teachers (NUT) leader Kevin Courtney said school staff “can’t be expected just to sit back” while budgets are reduced.
He said the government had made “a promise to every parent that the money following their child into school would not be cut” before the last election.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
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