16 May 2017
As a teacher of over 25 years experience in Hull and the area, I am dismayed at the continued underfunding of schools and the stresses on the teaching profession, says Martin Deane, a teacher and Green Party candiate for Hull North.
A severe funding crisis in Hull schools is planned and we in the Green Party absolutely reject it.
Tory Government education cuts are set to cost schools in Hull North ALONE an estimated £5,246,625 by 2020.
The 6 secondary schools and 24 primary schools of Hull North will have near £6m education cuts by 2020 under current Tory government plans. (1)
100% of state-funded Hull North schools will be affected.
Greens will stop education cuts in Hull.
Greens pledge nationally to plug the entire £7 billion funding gap facing education due to Tory cuts.
Teachers are already under immense pressures coping with the weekly workload, let alone the further stresses that deliberate underfunding will cause.
Cuts have already seen £2.2 bn taken out of education nationally, and the next £3bn cuts will be the biggest real terms fall in spending per pupil for 30 years.
The average primary school will lose over £98,000 (slightly below the national average of £103,000), and the average secondary school will lose £503,000 (well above the national average of £470,000).
As schools get fewer resources, more is being asked of teachers and pupils. But how are schools meant to prepare children for life, when our schools suffer more funding cuts?
The world's 6th richest economy must value its future. Greens will scrap tuition fees and restore Educational Maintenance Grants for poorer students.
Martin Deane
Parliamentary candidate for Hull North, Green Party
NOTES
1. Figures from https://schoolcuts.org.uk (NUT union etimates based on planned % cuts per pupil)
2. School figures are as follows, after https://schoolcuts.org.uk -
TOTAL SECONDARY Over £3 million
*TOTAL PRIMARY Over £2 million
TOTAL HULL NORTH Over £5 million
Secondary Schools
St Marys College 430,218
Newland School for Girls 499,343
Kelvin Hall School 722,165
Kingswood Academy 404,408
Sirius Academy North 836,826
Wyke 6th form College 629,669
TOTAL SECONDARY: 3,522,629
AVERAGE: 503, 233
Primary Schools
St Andrew's Church of England VA Primary School 111,571
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 38,378
Broadacre Primary School ...................................... 60,133
Sidmouth Primary School ..................................... 106, 589
Kingswood Parks Primary School ................................ 254,761
Parkstone Primary School ........................................ 45,007
Stepney Primary School .................................... 61,376
Thorpepark Academy ................................................ 89,887
Newland St John's C of E Academy ........................ 101,765
St Nicholas Primary School ...................................... 70,782
St Vincent's Voluntary Catholic Academy .................... 23,738
Endike Academy ................................................... 103,435
The Parks Primary Academy ...................................... 84,031
Endsleigh Holy Child VC Academy .............................. 71,949
St Mary Queen of Martyrs VC Academy ........................ 71,565
Cleeve Primary School ............................................. 115,811
Bricknell Primary School ........................................... 150,869
Appleton Primary School ............................................ 57,997
Thoresby Primary School .......................................... 109,471
Highlands Primary School ..................................... 123,266
Bude Park Primary School ....................................... 81,951
Biggin Primary School ........................................... 155,261
Hall Road Academy ............................................ 112,194
The Green Way Academy ........................................ 145,863
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