TWO HUNDRED students at Paddington School in | fall, no wonder things get i backing of the union to our demonstrated in defence of their school.
There was a wne yuca inc Labour Party passed resolerjons callie tor class or 25 by 1980. Well. it's 1978 and the Not only are there 50,000 leachets ould be put to good use, bu here is also a fall in the schoo population (it's called falling numbers classes and better education.
London Education Authority is using the fall in rolls as excuse to implement cuts by amalgamating schools Two London schools are at the forefront of the light against this policy.
Montefiore was announced this week. We at Paddiseton are fighting 3 proposed amalga mation with Sarah Siddons and Rutherford schools in WestAMALGAMATION Amalgamation would mean cuts in staff, and deterioration in educational standards, with children and staff having to (ransler and move beiween three or four sites separated by a mile!
-an westm London teachers have fought for the ILEA to introdace an area plan to roduce class sizes in every school against authority s singling out of two or three schools for the chop.
The Labour controlled ILEA argues that small schools can*t affer the same opportunities. But this is rubbish rationalisation for its educa.jon-cutting schemes Manchester of the Duchess of York Hospital for children in Manchester already provoked a sense of popular outrage. JEFF WEST reports.
30,000 people have signed the petition to keep the hospital open, and the car stickers and badges that produced are seen SOUL NARCOCSICT.
The Area Health Authority formally proposed the closure last December, claiming that recent population trends show the birth rate is falling.
Fobulation trends are he coming a popular argument for reducing teacher training and now even children's hospitals.
makes ridiculous that December the AHA had showa no sign of having noticed anythug WILSON in population trends.
In 1976≤30,000 was spent on updating the operating theatre at the Duchess of Tork. Laler that year a similar amount was adding an older children's ward.
Many Joca doctors were not of bow many facilities the bospital had, until they saw asurvey carried ouchy lic accon contillee ta save the hospital The AHA have also claimed West London made the headlines last week when they DENNY FITZPATRICK. a chemistry teacher at the school and chairperson of its action committee, reports on Paddington's campaign against the cuts.
dependent on the staff and facilities the authority allows it to have, Ir the authorities continue 1o transfer and redeploy teachers as rolls who East the just i the hospital for use by mentally handicapped children presently at North Lancashire. the action comanittee sympathetic to the need for has handicapped, it does not see the solution in robbing Peter to pay Pauline Resolutions of support and donations to the fighting fund should be sent to the: Duchess of York Action Committee heen c/o. Stirton, Duchess of York Hospital, Burnage Manchester.
Domestic Violence Conference THREE hundred women met In London on I1 June lo review the first year of the Domestic Violence Act. The Act was women more rights, particalurly their more The conference concluded until law did little 1o position or bacered wonien the The bost viseble attack on the Act came from the Court of Appeal, which ruled that it did COVET unmarried HELPILLES The Daries y Johnson case Lords said at Dares had Lords said that rights over the home she hac леж shared with her cortion law is now a point dehate rather precedent.
NUT branch are united in their call for the maintenance of all stuff.
We have offers fichrback for a real alternative education National Union of can allow it to give the full that they are going to convert exclude violent men from matrimonial home and of the Calderstone in arrest or exclude such men E Although well known. is The effectiveness of the Act is being further sapped by its mentally misuse by many local authority housing departments, under the DVA before they will regard This is regardless of whether such action really offers individual women rection Lane, This points to two things Above all the contiming nee Tor Women's Aid relages tundus and better premises.
And a real assessment of the noods of the victims of domestic violence rather than gestures in the statite book gire battered sed by Rights Of Women, the Nadona Women's Aid Federa. tion and the NCCL, who will be produce a can topel ter tre near future.
change the Birmingham-Dunlop Nearly 100 workers face the CO- sack at Dunlop's Tysles works in Birmingham. engineering and ruler canpans claims that the resurn on Justify keeping the unlon Lorex to have lie of academic entire workforce on the dole by than a real TILLUSI Shop stewards are lighting The failure of judges, to the proposed closure and lave activities why the staff, the Institute of Scotland decided to advise its foribed action organise the heginning Teachers they arise. the Ille that it paid.
who the factory viable case all MPS any profor occupation ahead.
the docks Closure The giant Tuetory:
Over The NUT's equivalent north has TELLINOCI to refore to tech am or alone.
oF next term. The NUT leaders prefer a policy of dealing with the cuts locally as the labour The campaign to be launched Teachers School, aircady produced a documen giving an alternative vice of tho RATE CATS ATTIC TALION could detaile the low investment by the company and the low wages | Alliance for national action class size wall be Important counter to tbe Nu execulive's inactivity. But the fight for reced classsize must not be the fight of leachers Opposition to the Labour Govemment's education cuts E1. всто вс weco arousu As a to: Paddington Oakington Road COW the TGWU crocutive's agreenient, convene a national MELAAM COCKEN SECRE London W9 and to Robert Montefiore Schoal, Vallance KOR EX PUBLIC MEETING on the future of the Robert Monte. nore School, culled by the ILEA. Momtefiore COLORIHE School, Vallance Rd. London Thurs 22 June 7,30pm This is the lust chance the people in the local commonity will have to make known their feelings about the -school's OFF The conference. authority and housing associa tion persoapel, was bombarded by cards illustrating a child's view of a typical Women's Aid refuge
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