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Schools

8 September 2021

Union action needed to make schools Covid safe

Staff, school students, and their families understandably want the new academic year to be a return to 'normality'

8 September 2021

Fighting NEU leadership needed to tackle school funding crisis

Vote Martin Powell-Davies for DGS: The Tories have presided over damaging cuts to school funding that have disproportionately affected the most deprived schools, a recent report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has concluded.

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8 September 2021

Schools funding crisis fails vulnerable children

Schools face a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) funding crisis, a Ł1 billion shortfall in funding

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25 August 2021

Exam results: grade gap widens

After a tumultuous two years of studying during a pandemic, students across the country finally received their teacher-assessed results on 10 and 12 of August

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7 July 2021

Fund the measures needed to stop the Covid spread in schools

The increasing number of Covid cases among pupils, and the need for school 'bubbles' to isolate, means that over 370,000 pupils are in isolation and having to learn at home

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7 July 2021

Derby academies closed by strikes against brutal cuts and changes

Teachers, members of the National Education Union (NEU) at two Derby schools - Lees Brook Academy and Merrill Academy - were out on strike for a full day on 1 July

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30 June 2021

Brighton: Moulsecoomb strike against academisation

Deaf to the overwhelming opposition of parents, students, staff and their unions, the local community and council, Lee Mason-Ellis and the Pioneer Academy chain are intent on taking over Moulsecoomb Primary School in Brighton in September

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16 June 2021

Schools need resources to tackle 'routine' sexual harassment

As a student support worker in a secondary school, when I read the reports that Ofsted has found that sexual harassment and abuse is "routine" for school students, I was disgusted, but not surprised.

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9 June 2021

Fight for the funding our schools and colleges need

The Treasury refused to foot the bill that Kevan Collins deemed necessary

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2 June 2021

York students demand democratic control of schools

On Wednesday 26 May, York Young Socialists organised a 30-strong protest campaigning for reformation of the school system

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26 May 2021

Organise to oppose Tory academisation plans

The education minister said he wants all schools to become academies.

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7 April 2021

Sexism in education: It shouldn't be like this!

The posts on the website 'Everyone's Invited' are shocking and heartbreaking.

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7 April 2021

Elect a socialist leadership to fight for national action and a united campaign

This year's elections for the executive of the biggest education union, the NEU, come at an important time for educators.

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7 April 2021

Pimlico Academy protests: "Run by racists for profit"

Anger has been growing in schools for a long time. Decades of underfunding, increasing class sizes and growing pressure around exam results have created schools which feel more like exam factories then

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7 April 2021

Academy schools have become business ventures

The process of selecting a secondary school for your child can be an agonising one for many parents. In 2005 I viewed about a dozen and chose Pimlico. The headteacher seemed a nice guy and the leadership

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24 March 2021

Film Review: Moxie

A springboard for discussion about sexism in schools: Netflix's new film Moxie, based upon a book of the same name, might provide a springboard for further discussions around sexism in schools but does not, as one reviewer put it "offer a blueprint for a revolution."

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10 March 2021

Workers respond to 'back to school'

A mockery of everything we've done: Schools opened on Monday 8 March, and we don't know if we are inhaling or exhaling. Here we go again - bubbles, disinfectant, and social distancing in tight spaces.

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