The letter, which urges the Government to invest more money in schools in the Spending Review to help meet the huge funding crisis across education, leaving schools forced to cut staff and a poorer education for children, will be handed to the education secretary this afternoon.
It forms part of a campaign by the NEU Councillors Network, which is supported by the education fair funding campaign group f40.
The letter refers to statistics from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, showing schools have suffered a cut of 8 per cent per pupil since 2010. It also mentions research by the Education Policy Institute, which found almost a third of all council-run secondary schools are now in deficit.
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