Launched today by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), schoolcuts.org.uk anticipates how individual schools across the country would be affected by the Government's plans to introduce a new schools funding formula alongside real term cuts to funding per pupil and cost increases.
According to the website, nine in ten schools (92 per cent) could face budget cuts of more than six per cent in real terms over the next four years.
Schools with the most deprived children would be worst hit if the Government reallocates the existing overall schools' budget. It shows that primary schools with a high number of disadvantaged pupils would lose an estimated £578 per pupil.
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