Geoff Barton, the general secretary of ASCL, described the survey findings as «stark», and claimed the work of schools will be «increasingly eroded» unless the government takes «urgent
action over the school funding crisis».
Not exact matches
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has backed its members calls for a strike
action over pay, working conditions and
school funds.
Schools are crying out for
action and evidence - based policies to tackle the education
funding crisis, chaos
over primary assessment, and the blight of excessive teacher workload.
But this week, after one of Raleigh's most outspoken
school choice backers, former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, suggested charter leaders file a class -
action suit against every county in North Carolina
over funding, leaders on both sides seem farther apart than ever.
«It is bad enough that more than $ 50 million in scarce public
funds have been turned
over to Jumoke Academy / Fuse, but unless immediate
action is taken to reverse the Malloy administration's bad policy decisions, the series of no - bid contracts and State Board of Education votes will mean literally hundreds of millions more will be given to this charter
school chain,» Pelto concluded.
Increasingly, however, such dreams are turning to
action — most notably in the case of the shocking May 2015 walkout of the University of Southern California's MFA class of 2016 (now known as the USC Seven), who left the program as a group while issuing collectively signed communiqués about their grievances with
school administration
over cuts in promised
funding, treatment of tenured faculty and, perhaps most important, the very direction of the
school's plans to emphasize already well -
funded tech and design education
over fine art.