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NEU delegate David Room speaks at the union’s conference in Harrogate on Monday
LABOUR was urged to fix the schools funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning more than £500,000 by Britain’s largest education union yesterday.
Delegates shouted “shame” as the highest earning multi-academy trust (MAT) chiefs were named and shamed at the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference.
Cheers sounded as Harris Federation CEO Sir Dan Moynihan, the first academy trust leader to cross the half-a-million mark, was told to “take his salary and go and live on a desert island.”
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