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Heads will consider running a four-and-a-half-day school week, refusing to submit their budgets and running a deficit in a bid to fight funding cuts. The National Association of Head Teachers has voted at its annual conference to consider “every available option” if the government does not reverse its “irresponsible education cuts”. The union will now […]

The upcoming snap election could cause the national funding formula to be “delayed or abandoned”, the National Association of Head Teachers has warned. Expected changes to primary testing could also be disrupted as the inner workings of government close-up shop to allow for political campaigning before the general election in June. Valentine Mulholland, the union’s […]

Pre-election “purdah” has put the brakes on the government’s free schools policy, with a number of institutions due to open this September now in limbo until after the election. Disruptions are also occurring to the education select committee and interventions in under-peforming schools because of the election. Schools Week knows of at least one free […]

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools. Data released by the government on the day it called the general election shows that eight of the 18 schools sponsored by grammar schools […]

Headteachers have backed Church of England plans to ban parents from withdrawing their pupils from religious education, claiming it is being exploited by ‘interest groups’ and those seeking to incite religious hatred. Under current rules, parents have the right to withdraw their children from RE lessons and collective worship at all maintained schools, including those […]

Justine Greening will not address the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers this weekend after her visit was cancelled by the Department for Education. The education secretary was due to speak at the event in Telford on Saturday morning, but has pulled out at the last minute. Schools Week understands that her […]

Funding for new schools is delivered through an “increasingly incoherent” system, with the government frequently paying “over the odds” for sites and building schools without the “full suite of facilities”, a powerful committee of MPs has warned. In a new report, out today, the parliamentary public accounts committee (PAC) warns that while free schools are helping meet the […]