Cuts to education as dire as NHS but less visible

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www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/17/cuts-nhs-schools-bankruptcy-laura-mcinerney?CMP=share_btn_tw

"schools are heading towards mass bankruptcy and the only government plan for solving it is optimism."

Coupled with a massive teacher recruitment and retention crisis that the DfE refuses to acknowledge, and Theresa May set on wasting millions of pounds, and (just as, and possibly even more important) people's time and energy on the vanity project that is grammar schools, does anyone have any faith in the government to sort this out?

If any of this was research based we'd all see an increase of funding to London levels.
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If any of this was research based we'd all see an increase of funding

"Expanding upon the four-day week idea, Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School head teacher Denis Oliver said he was investigating the possibility of "having children working at home with their teachers online as virtual support, [thereby] saving on heating, lighting, cleaning and transport costs."
"We are looking at everything," he told the BBC.
"Class sizes will rise, services for children with high needs will drastically reduce, school libraries may have to close.
"It's draconian. It will destroy some schools.""

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-38692692