«ASCL urges the STRB to press the DfE to fully fund pay rises so that the government meets the additional costs rather than again expecting them to be met
from existing school budgets which are already under huge pressure because of unfunded increases to employers» contributions to teacher pensions and National Insurance costs.»
However, it only accepts this on the basis that no extra funding would be made available and so if schools were to offer higher pay rises this would need to come out
of existing school budgets.
Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, accepted some of the money for the premium — a key Liberal Democrat proposal — would come from within
the existing schools budget but insisted overall spending on schools would rise.
So all the costs for these new schools will come from
the existing schools budget.
The STRB is said to have estimated that there would be no additional cost to the taxpayer of implementing their recommendations, as any pay increases awarded by individual schools would have to be met from within
existing school budgets.
Malloy's charter school proposal is that each charter schools student be given an extra $ 2,600 ($ 1,000 of which would be shifted from the city's
existing school budget).
If the Government just reallocates
the existing schools budget in its new national funding formula, nine in ten schools face having less money for every pupil in real terms.
DreamBox Learning can be incorporated into
your existing school budgets in a variety of ways.