{"id":18957,"date":"2019-09-22T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18957"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:33","slug":"labours-new-education-service-pledge-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18957","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crisis of funding&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite delegatae\u00c2\u00a0Sarah Hacker joined the debate on education, on Sunday September 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said that\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;as a parent, school governor and councillor, I speak as someone who has real experience of what has happened to our schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a crisis of funding. Schools in England have had a 13-year real-terms freeze &#8211; an unprecedented period without growth. There is a crisis of accountability. In the last decade we have seen our school system transformed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hacker continued, &#8220;Around half of all children in state-funded schools are now taught by an academy trust. And a recent select committee report complained that <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bparents and local people have to fight to obtain even basic information about their children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s schools\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These schools are accountable not to local councillors but to officials in Whitehall. And as a recent Education Policy Institute report found, academies do <u>not<\/u> perform better than maintained schools. And we are facing a crisis in respect of the wellbeing of our schoolchildren.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hacker explained, &#8220;They are at risk of being turned into exam machines rather than experiencing all the benefits of a full, well rounded education that allows them to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Creative arts subjects are being hit in many schools. Music, art and drama are being cut back in favour of so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0098core academic subjects\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She concluded, &#8220;We welcome Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment to a New Education Service in England which must combine democratic oversight, universal standards and the opportunity for everyone to flourish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite delegatae\u00c2\u00a0Sarah Hacker joined the debate on education, on Sunday September 22. &nbsp; She said that\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;as a parent, school governor and councillor, I speak as someone who has real experience of what has happened to our schools. &nbsp; &#8220;There is a crisis of funding. Schools in England have had a 13-year real-terms freeze &#8211; an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[34,1111,999],"wps_subtitle":"Labour's new education service pledge welcomed ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24998,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions\/24998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}