Schools
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
School strikes against cuts grow in London
25 April 2017School strikes are spreading across London even before the Tory funding cuts have begun to hit schools.
Teachers coordinate strikes in London over school cuts - and protests are planned
25 April 2017Workers at three schools in south east London began a coordinated two-day strike against cuts on Tuesday of this week.
School cuts could soon mean strikes after teachers back walkouts at NUT conference
18 April 2017Teachers 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 backs ballots for a boycott of the hated Sats tests in primary schools
18 April 2017NUT members voted overwhelmingly for ballots aimed at boycotting the hated Sats tests next year.
National strikes need to be a part of the fight against the Tory attacks on education
11 April 2017The education funding cuts are a national attack and require a national response.
Movement against school cuts spreads across England
11 April 2017Around 300 people met in South Gloucestershire to oppose the Tories’ cuts to school funding. Another 50 met in Leamington Spa.
GALLERY - Forest Hill school strike battles cuts that threaten children's education
04 April 2017Strikers 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
Strikers say ‘come and see the difference we make’ before you cut schools team in half
04 April 2017Teachers and school support staff at three London schools are on strike today, Thursday, against cuts.
Striking teachers battling cuts tell Lewisham councillors to ‘start listening’
04 April 2017Strikers 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.
Fightback against school cuts is well under way
04 April 2017The 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
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