New Education Secretary Damian Hinds has made a priority of social mobility - but he will also have to make some big decisions about
the pressure over school funding.
The incoming education secretary will face
pressures over school funding and decisions about university tuition fees.
Not exact matches
The union's advocates are expected to
pressure lawmakers for an increase of at least $ 1.5 billion — a figure that education advocates have argued satisfies a lawsuit
over school funding.
These concerns are compounded by a common expectation that budget
pressures and lack of
funding will be the biggest challenge for
schools over the next 12 months.
The announcement follows mounting
pressure on the government from campaigns
over funding shortages, and will see an additional # 1.3 bn spent on
schools in England
over the next two years.
Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that
over 50 per cent of
school leaders expect budget
pressures and lack of
funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.
«The government has failed to provide
schools with
funding for pay awards
over the course of several years, and this is one of a series of additional cost
pressures which have pushed
school finances to breaking point,» he said.
The National Union of Teachers conference in Harrogate is set to hear calls for a strike
over pressures on
school funding on Sunday.
Greening, who was re-appointed as education secretary earlier this month after narrowly keeping her seat in the general election, faced
pressure from MPs on both sides
over school funding details as she made her first speech in this parliament.
Affirming his longstanding belief in local control, Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that advocates for tighter state controls
over the Local Control
Funding Formula would better spend their time in
school districts,
pressuring local boards to spend money on low - income children, than making their case in Sacramento,
Despite widespread concern
over funding pressures, there was no extra money earmarked for
school revenue budgets in the Budget last week.
So, how on earth can these packages have been awarded, given the
pressures of
schools funding over recent years?
School funding chiefs and academy trust bosses have been under increasing
pressure to crack down on excessive executive pay following a public backlash
over rising academy CEO pay in recent years.
Schools in England are being promised an extra # 1.3 bn
over two years, as the government responded to
pressure from campaigns
over funding shortages.
Schools are facing serious budget
pressures over the coming years, as the impact of rising pupil numbers, barely - resourced buildings overheads and the uncertainties of the new national
funding formula kick in.
School leaders and parents have kept up the
pressure over the past several months to urge state lawmakers to either delay the class size changes or come up with more money to
fund the smaller class sizes.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (ISF),
schools face average cuts of 6.5 per cent
over the course of this parliament as a result of rising cost
pressures and frozen per - pupil
funding.
(Calif.) Bowing to
pressure from legislative leaders and advocates for low - income students, the Brown administration has promulgated draft regulations imposing far more accountability requirements
over billions in new
school funding than originally proposed.