Schools
Parents take to the streets of London against school funding cuts
16 July 2017Hundreds of parents, children, teachers and others marched in London against school cuts today, Sunday.
School strikes in Ealing show the way to beat back academies
14 July 2017Strikes at a primary school in Ealing, west London, have scored a significant victory in a battle against academies.
Parents plan a London carnival in reaction to Tory school funding cuts
11 July 2017Parents, school workers, children and others will gather in central London this Sunday for a carnival against the cuts.
Strikes spread in London schools - and teachers' action can stop Tory funding cuts
27 June 2017Teachers at a number of London schools struck this week against cuts and the threats to education.
Teachers begin strikes at two schools in Ealing to say no to academies
20 June 2017Teachers at two west London schools were out on strike on Tuesday of this week. NUT union members at Drayton Green primary school began a two-day strike on Tuesday. Those at Dormers Wells High School began a three-day strike.
Tension at the Unison conference
20 June 2017Thousands of public sector workers met in Brighton this week at the national and sector conferences of Britain's largest union, Unison.
Union leader tells Forest Hill School strikers - ‘Keep up the fight for education’
20 June 2017NUT union general secretary Kevin Courtney has congratulated pickets at Forest Hill School for striking over cuts – and urged them to keep fighting.
As parents plan London protest over school funding cuts - pile pressure on the Tories
13 June 2017Parents, teachers, children and others are preparing to protest against school funding cuts in London. The demonstration is expected to be on Sunday 16 July.
Slashing schools will be no picnic for Tories
06 June 2017Parents, teachers, children and others joined several protests against school funding cuts last weekend.
The racist ‘Trojan Horse’ lie hits the rocks after case is thrown out
06 June 2017An Islamophobic scheme to accuse Muslims of taking over Birmingham schools was further exposed as a lie last week. Sadie Robinson says the scandal is how Muslims were demonised
‘School cuts are an election issue’ as parents, pupils and teachers protest
30 May 2017Parents, children, teachers and others joined a nationwide day of action yesterday, Friday, against cuts to school funding.
It’s right to fight the Tories as ‘Big School Assembly’ against cuts draws huge crowd
30 May 2017More than 1,000 people gathered in Mile End Park in east London this evening, Wednesday, in a fantastic show of opposition to school funding cuts.
Big schools protests pledge resistance to Tory education funding cuts
23 May 2017Anger at Theresa May's plan to slash billions from schools' budgets burst onto the streets
Education fights can beat the cuts
16 May 2017Large 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.
Forest Hill strikers battle on as Plumstead Manor strike wins
16 May 2017Strikers formed a noisy picket line at Forest Hill School in south east London. It was the eighth walkout in a struggle to stop cuts.
Activists say, we’re going to teach the Tories a lesson over school funding cuts
09 May 2017The 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.
Forest Hill School teachers strike for seventh time to stop school cuts
09 May 2017Teachers at Forest Hill School struck for the seventh time today, Wednesday, in a battle to stop savage cuts.
Fresh strike planned over cuts at Lewisham's Forest Hill School
02 May 2017NUT 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.
Activists call protests, ‘big assemblies’ and ‘question times’ in fight to stop school cuts
02 May 2017The battle to stop Tory education cuts is growing.
Children at Birmingham school to spend less time learning due to Tory funding cuts
02 May 2017A Birmingham school plans to slash two and a half hours’ teaching time from children each week because of Tory cuts.
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