Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Hangleton Primary - £100k down for 2017/18
Benfield Primary - £48k down for 2017/18
Hove Park - not sure of the figures, but a letter going out warning parents of the cuts to come.
These are fundamental cuts to our children's educations. This isn't messing around cutting a bit of excess spending, this is actual front line teaching at stake, core subject areas.
Brighton and Hove actually have too many Primary School places right now. They can, and probably should start to reduce a class intact from one or two schools, BUT the ridiculous policy decisions of the government is that they have provided more money to set up FREE SCHOOLS. It is madness. We don't need any new schools, there is an excess of places, but you could get a grant to set up a new school tomorrow – in spite of current schools desperately needing additional funding.
It is truly ridiculous, both at central government level, and to some degree the long term planning (or lack of) at our local government level.
Just when so many of B&H schools have worked so hard to get their standards up and attainment levels so high, the rug is being pulled well and truly out from under them.
Benfield Primary - £48k down for 2017/18
Hove Park - not sure of the figures, but a letter going out warning parents of the cuts to come.
These are fundamental cuts to our children's educations. This isn't messing around cutting a bit of excess spending, this is actual front line teaching at stake, core subject areas.
Brighton and Hove actually have too many Primary School places right now. They can, and probably should start to reduce a class intact from one or two schools, BUT the ridiculous policy decisions of the government is that they have provided more money to set up FREE SCHOOLS. It is madness. We don't need any new schools, there is an excess of places, but you could get a grant to set up a new school tomorrow – in spite of current schools desperately needing additional funding.
It is truly ridiculous, both at central government level, and to some degree the long term planning (or lack of) at our local government level.
Just when so many of B&H schools have worked so hard to get their standards up and attainment levels so high, the rug is being pulled well and truly out from under them.