The game is up for privatisation and the neo-liberal ideology that underpinned it. A National Education Service offers real hope.
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Today, the leadership of the National Education Union has written to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, calling for the Government to close schools and colleges and protect vulnerable educators or those caring for at risk family members.
Here is the text of the letter.👇
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Thank you for bringing to attention @keepstbedes in parliament today @SamTarry please correct @NickGibbUK we are an outstanding school not a failing one @RaaRedbridge @LouRegan1 @StAgainst @welovestbons
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Brighton & Hove NEU Branch Secretary, Paul Shellard, speaking about the @HandsOffMPS campaign on 18th December on @latestbrighton thelatest.co.uk/brighton/202… – at Hove, England
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“The 10 men worth £9bn controlling our schools” by @warwickmansell in the @NEUnion magazine
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It's back to school tomorrow and it's back to campaigning against high-stakes testing in primary schools. Will you join us? Do you believe your children are #morethanascore?
Please let us know if you'd like to be involved. together we can change the system.
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This is becoming a twitter trend: school leaders leaving schools in the most deprived areas, where they are needed most, because of Ofsted. Tell me please @Ofstednews how this raises standards of education for the poorest pupils?
" No-one would deny the need for oversight and regulation, but in its current form, Ofsted doesn’t do that. It reinforces the postcode social inequality of our country"
schoolsweek.co.uk/cuts-and-o… Cuts and overbearing accountability have driven me out of headship
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Labour Council leader supports parents & staff opposed to forced academisation of Brighton school and reveals that even the Academy Trust offered the school by DfE, because they say Ofsted said it was failing, believes it is improving. theargus.co.uk/news/18119877…
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Insulting and poor academy trust pulls out ... "The last thing our children need is the instability of [an academy] trust with a poor track record taking over our school so it’s great news to hear that this sponsor has pulled out.” We agree. theargus.co.uk/news/18108563…
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The DfE have tried the same tactic across the uk: suggesting a school may close if it isn’t rebrokered rapidly and forced some communities to accept trusts they don’t want by saying its the only choice or face closure. No thinking time, no discussion or debating time.
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Fantastic news and total sour grapes from New Horizons Academy Trust. The simple fact is that Moulsecoomb Primary is now making great progress under its current leadership and the local community campaign @HandsOffMPS is fearless 💪👊
An academy trust has pulled out of sponsoring Moulsecoomb Primary School in #Brighton. It said the school faces closure and criticised the "toxic" campaign by staff, parents and politicians. The trust said the biggest losers would be the school’s children bit.ly/34vFxIQ
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There’s lots here I was unaware of. It’s also a timely reminder of the excellent work of @warwickmansell. Please share & subscribe to his site educationuncovered.co.uk It’s a small fee - see it as a donation to enable this kind of important investigative journalism to continue.
For anyone who wants to understand our education system today. Even those within it may not know much of this.
REVEALED: The Brexit-backing businessmen taking control of England’s schools | openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a…
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So chuffed 🤣
Specialist Journalism goes to @JohndickensSW of @SchoolsWeek for his investigation into cost-cutting plans for schools which had a “significant impact on the political agenda” #BJA2019
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Also - pretty hilariously - the story that won the award both Edu ministers Agnew and Gibb publicly tried to dismiss our story as taking things out of context. They said it was all just sensationalised journalism 🙄
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Now tell me who’s financially incompetent, cos it sure wasn’t Labour that introduced this useless, wasteful privatisation of our schools – at Portsmouth, England
£20 million that could have been spent on local schools in Sussex wasted on free schools that all closed within 5 years. An appalling waste of money on an appalling Tory policy. And what happened to buildings given to the private free schools companies? theargus.co.uk/news/18092035…
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Whatever their income, parents shouldn't feel under pressure to make donations to pay for school essentials like books and pencils. Education should be free and accessible for all pupils. We must end #SchoolCuts #VoteEducation #GE2019 @NEUnion @SchoolCuts
bbc.co.uk/news/education-507…
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The @Conservatives are not at the #c4debate but we've done the maths on their, Labour & Lib Dem plans for school funding in England at the #GE19 election.
📘 Loss per child of - £269
📒 Gain per child of + £10
📕 Gain per child of + £197
Learn more👉schoolcuts.org.uk
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Where would truth about English schools be without @warwickmansell indefatigable questions and info?
Characteristically v interesting comment by Matthew Bennett beneath my website story on Moulsecoomb primary school takeover, on one of chains involved in discussions: Aurora. Was non-profit arm of US for-profit "edu-business". educationuncovered.co.uk/the…
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Here’s a reminder of how some people talk about “school improvement”.
Look at number 4: “exclude poor quality students”.
What a way to describe our young people. Exclude them to go where? To someone else’s school? To the streets?
#ValueEducation #VoteEducation
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A must read to udnerstand how the academy school model is developing
Exclusive: “Wealth can be a force for good”: major academy trust listed alongside an apparently commercial business, among the interests of a ‘private family organisation’. educationuncovered.co.uk/new…
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.@jeremycorbyn is right to say children's chances have been damaged by school cuts and austerity. In recent NEU survey 60% teachers said they'd seen an increase in pupils coming to school hungry since 2015. Hungry kids aren't ready to learn #ITVDebate #VoteEducation #GE2019