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AN academy chain “covered up” wholesale cheating by a school which paid professionals to “point at the answers” during SATs exams, a teacher claimed today.
The sensational allegation emerged as the National Education Union raised the alarm over the “falsification of data” being used to inflate grades.
Bob Groome, an NEU rep in Norfolk, told delegates: “We’ve had ... instances where schools hired in extra support for pupils during Sats examinations, in order to enhance the pass rate.
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
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people