According to a poll of 1,000 parents of school-age children in England by the National Education Union (NEU), education is the third most important issue in this election, with 28 per cent of respondents putting it in their top two or three priorities.
The top issues were the NHS (55 percent) and the EU and Brexit (29 per cent).
The poll also found that the majority of parents who intended to vote for a particular party would vote Labour (38 per cent), 1 per cent more than when the question was asked a week previously.
The Conservatives also gained 1 per cent, with 33 per cent of parents who intended to vote or had chosen a particular party planning to vote for them.
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