Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, accused the chancellor of «throwing more
money at grammar schools», and said the government's spending pledges were «totally insufficient» to tackle the wider funding crisis in schools.
Not exact matches
She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state
schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more
money at free
schools and
grammar schools.
In addition to this, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) general secretary, Mary Bousted, believes that the Chancellor is «throwing more
money at free
schools and
grammar schools».
«The main pitfall is spending loads of
money with no plan, no objectives and no idea what they are buying them for or how they will use them,» says Matt Britland, head of ICT
at Kingston
Grammar School.
Rayner received a warm reception
at the Association of
School and College Leaders annual conference in Birmingham this afternoon, where she attacked plans for new
grammar schools and called for
money allocated for free
schools to be spent «more fairly».
Instead of throwing more
money at free
schools and
grammar schools, more children would benefit if the Government funded all state
schools sufficiently, argues the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).