REACH INTO YOUR POCKET TO HELP FIGHT BACK The THE TORIES are pledged to Tameside cuts in education of at least зпу EUm. which will so great be phraught the would be school closures by government which will involve the axing of thousands of jobs in the schools.
Labour's rationale was the fall in school population, but the Tories are not so crude.
cutting They recognise that the demand for small community schools can serve a particular function in deprived areas.
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restore the direct grunt independent last Tory repeal the 1976 Act which requires local education authorides to submit plans for they comprehensives, able to protect the privileged the classes.
The principul way they will winning a fightback - of has organisations will be part of polle tary, to end Labou purents"
real students Tail in the S7SECE the Tories Can and schools, and they will be take on teachers and parenis -BUSTEU IN Mandards, testing, and results.
Hence the pledges of Mark Carlisle, the Education Secremised ability schools. teaching and to introduce a Many charter & conve Joined niest way of covering for the against school It will also provide the pretest for closing schools.
The Tories target for the axe transferred, will he unpopular schools in disadvantaged areas with poor exam results, while a straitjacker will be Imposed on the type of education schools cun offer, with the emphasis on London The cumpaigns that have been launched against school closure. Involving thousands of reachers, parents, and school studenis, huve begun to come fight education. to terms with the issue of who and what education b for.
The battle to maintaie local schools is the first step towards controlling what goes en in the parents who have the local struggles closure have been critical of the failure of their own children at school.
Yet it is apparent that if soverument policies go through - if a school is closed, staff are redeployed, made redundant, and curricula cat while claw sine remain enchanged - then education cannot be in their interests The conference of the All Campaign Against School Closure, to be held on Saturday 19 May, will examine the alternative to closure and include discussion on schools and their communities. and what is happening to educaIt b being held at the Tate and Drama Centre, Princeton Street, off Red Lion Square, London WC1, beginming The fiest national conference en school closure is scheduled for October, and it is boped to obtain wide sponsorship from the luhour movement.
If we are to advance the interests of the community and not the Treasury, socialists will need to make demands finance a central part of th for alternatives That means demands such as: an end to the cash malt system; profection of social expenditure through antematic increases to keep pace loan repayments; and nationalisation of the education suppli industry and the banks. LEFT conterence on leland Sat -9 May Smell Peoples Demeat shops, discussions BROADSIDE THEATRE.
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