Schools Follow

Anger at Theresa May's plan to slash billions from schools' budgets burst onto the streets

Strikers formed a noisy picket line at Forest Hill School in south east London. It was the eighth walkout in a struggle to stop cuts.

Large protests and campaigns show the fury at schools funding cuts. A huge march through Lancaster last Saturday showed the fury at a Tory schools funding cuts plan—and potential to build resistance to it.

Teachers at Forest Hill School struck for the seventh time today, Wednesday, in a battle to stop savage cuts.

The Tories are in crisis over their planned education cuts. The first copy of the Evening Standard newspaper edited by former chancellor George Osborne last week ran a front page on the crisis.

A Birmingham school plans to slash two and a half hours’ teaching time from children each week because of Tory cuts.

The battle to stop Tory education cuts is growing.

NUT union members at Forest Hill School were set to strike on Wednesday this week. The workers are fighting a planned £1.3 million cuts package that Labour-run Lewisham council is trying to impose.

Workers at three schools in south east London began a coordinated two-day strike against cuts on Tuesday of this week.

School strikes are spreading across London even before the Tory funding cuts have begun to hit schools.

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).