The desire to make sure every young person has access to the highest quality education is the mission that unites school leaders, governors, parents, carers and teachers. In order to achieve that, schools have to be funded fully and fairly.
The trouble is, the government has taken £2.8 billion out of school budgets since 2015 and many are now at breaking point.
Education became a top issue in this summer’s General Election, with research showing that nearly one million people switched their votes on polling day because of what they’d heard.
A few weeks later, recognising that education was such an important issue for so many, The secretary of state announced that £1.3 billion from the Department for Education’s (DfE) budget would be redirected to schools.
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