Sentences with phrase «to protect school budgets»

«The NASUWT has warned repeatedly that the Government's failure to protect school budgets in real - terms since 2010 would lead inevitably to the Pupil Premium being absorbed into school budgets to assist schools in making ends meet.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The NASUWT warned at the outset when the Pupil Premium was first introduced that, in the context of the Coalition's savage austerity measures and its failure to protect school budgets despite its claims to the contrary, this funding would inevitably end up being absorbed into school budgets as the cuts bit.

While protecting the schools budget is to be welcomed, political parties have not made an explicit commitment to protect school expenditure in either the early years or post-16.

Nicky Morgan's undertaking to protect school budgets raises the question of where the axe will fall

«The first was to protect the schools budget in real terms, despite strong resistance from the Conservatives.

Responding to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Autumn Statement, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» Union in the UK, said: «We have heard it all before about guaranteeing to protect the schools budget.

A spokesman for the Department for Education (DfE) argued: «We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase and have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools.

The even bigger problem is that many of these schemes were unaffordable on day one and to protect school budgets, general needs funding has been plugging the gap.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase.

This is the equivalent of around # 300 million per year until 2020 and is additional to the protected schools budget.

The main thrust of the interview was about plans to ensure all pupils take a times table test at the end of primary schools - and an indication, by nodding when it was suggested, that the Conservatives would pledge to protect the schools budget - from age five to 16 - if the party wins the next election.

For the Lib Dems, schools minister David Laws said: «More children are now doing well in school because, in this parliament, Liberal Democrats forced the Tories to protect the schools budget.

But Chris Keates, leader of the Nasuwt teachers» union, said: «We have heard it all before about guaranteeing to protect the schools budget.

But a spokesman for the Department for Education said:» «We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase and have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh urged the government to protect the school budget in real terms, adding that he was concerned that the announcement did not rule more out cuts to school budgets «which are already overstretched».

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «We're protecting the schools budget in cash terms per pupil, introducing a pupil premium for disadvantaged pupils, and putting money directly into heads» hands.

He said: «We're protecting the schools budget in cash terms per pupil, introducing a pupil premium for disadvantaged pupils, and putting money directly into heads» hands.

The Department for Education says it is «protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase».

«The last government made considerable progress in reforming the school funding system and we are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase.»

«We are protecting the schools budget in real terms, so that as pupil numbers increase so will the amount of money in our schools.