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TORY funding cuts will force English schools to sack staff and pack more pupils into every classroom, according to an alarming independent analysis revealed yesterday.
The House of Commons Library has forecast a “real terms cut in per pupil funding” that will leave schools £7.5 billion short by 2020.
English schools are already facing the biggest budget cuts since the last all-Tory government in the mid-1990s, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
