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NUT members voted overwhelmingly for ballots aimed at boycotting the hated Sats tests next year.

Teachers in some English schools could strike in the summer term in response to Tory funding cuts. Delegates at the NUT union’s annual conference in Cardiff unanimously voted for the plan last weekend (see below).

NUT union members at three London secondary schools were set to strike this week over job losses that workers say are linked to funding cuts.

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Teachers have unanimously called on their NUT union to call a one-day strike against education funding cuts next term. 

The education funding cuts are a national attack and require a national response.

Strikers at Forest Hill School in south east London are causing ructions in the local Labour Party in a deepening row over a £1.3 million cuts package that Labour-run Lewisham council wants to push through.

Teachers and school support staff at three London schools are on strike today, Thursday, against cuts.

Strikers at Forest Hill School in south east London are battling a £1.3 million cuts package and a PFI scheme that drains off £1 million a year from education

UCU union members at the University of Brighton walked out from 1pm last Friday.

The fight to stop cuts in schools is escalating. Three groups of teachers struck in London last week against funding cuts. More NUT union members in other schools are balloting for strikes against cuts. And parents are organising against the Tories’ so called fair funding formula

Tory cuts to school funding in England, which could see the first real term cuts in 20 years, have prompted a fightback by teachers and parents. Hundreds have attended meetings across England to organise resistance to the attacks on education. A recent National Union of Teachers (NUT) survey found that in a majority of schools,...