News archive for 15th April 2017

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National Union of Teachers votes against grammar schools - Guardian Stop playing down pain of Christ’s death, teachers urged - Scotsman David Laws: it’s time for Theresa May to ditch damaging grammar school plans - Guardian The Observer view on education and social mobility | Observer editorial - Guardian Revealed: how free schools boom helps England’s richest regions - Guardian Calls for 'airport-style' searches of students before exams following Telegraph investigation - Telegraph Teachers’ union backs walkout over school cuts - Times NUT conference backs one-day strike over school funding concerns - Mail Teachers' union threatens strike over school budget cuts - BBC Pupils 'sitting in coats' as school saves cash on heating - BBC NUT backs strike action in English schools over funding crisis - Guardian Teachers 'bullied' into holding revision sessions for 'lazy' students, education union warns  - Telegraph Why won't schools listen to the experts about reducing workload? - EdCentral Teachers' union threatens strike over school cuts - BBC Schools 'depending on parents' direct debits' - BBC NUT to seek summer term strike action over school cuts - Schools Week State schools charging parents £2-a-day 'sandwich tax' for children bringing their own packed lunch - Mail Teachers 'bullied' into holding revision sessions for 'lazy students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jerusalem stabbing: tributes paid to Hannah Bladon - BBC Scottish student’s film selected for Cannes festival - Scotsman One in five parents asked to set up regular donations to school - Mail Secret Teacher: class, I wish I'd told you the truth about my mental health - Guardian Swinney faces backlash over school failings as reforms unveiled - Scotsman Legal threat over ‘back door’ grammars - PoliticsHome May under new pressure from Tory MPs to exclude foreign students from migration figures - Express Workload 'pushing young teachers to the brink' - BBC Justine Greening faces High Court battle with unions for allowing academies to select pupils for 'grammar streams' - Mail Government tries to decide whether to label students from 'ordinary working families' - Independent Demanding workload driving young teachers out of profession - Guardian Head teachers in Scotland will be given powers in SNP reform - Times Scotland: head teachers will be given powers in SNP reform - Times One in five parents 'asked to set up regular donations to child's school' - Express Half of young teachers considering quitting the profession - Independent Parents threatened with debt collectors for falling just 50p into debt to school over lunch money, survey finds - Telegraph Teachers threaten legal action over ‘backdoor grammars’ - Times Half of young teachers planning to leave within 5 years - Schools Week