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The NEU union plans to consult some of its members on whether to ballot for local boycotts of Sats tests

Children, parents, school workers and others marched on Downing Street to demand an end to “baseline tests”

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

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

Troublemaker was shocked to hear the results of this year’s Sats tests for primary school children. Nearly half failed to meet government targets in reading, writing and maths.

Campaigners told Sadie Robinson the Tories’ retreat doesn’t mean the threat to state schools has gone away

Hundreds of thousands of children in England faced misery this week as they were forced to sit the hated Sats tests.

Parents across England refused to take their six and seven year olds into schools on Tuesday. The “strike” was in protest at the hated Sats tests that turn schools into exam factories.