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News and articles about work, policy and workers' and students' struggles in education around the world.
Dinner ladies may strike
A group of dinner ladies based in Hackney who claim they are being underpaid are threatening strike action.
The cooks and catering assistants based at 27 schools in the London borough are currently employed by contractors, but say they do not receive the same rates as those directly employed by the council.
Glasgow: Mums occupy Carnwardic school against closure
Determined mothers are undertaking a series of overnight occupations of their working class neighbourhood school in a bid to save it from closure.
Carnwardric Primary School has 239 students – which would normally be a healthy size for a primary school, with an average of 34 students in each of its seven year groups. But with a regulation limit of one teacher to every 33 students, some Carnwardric year groups get two teachers. A larger merged school will have larger class sizes and fewer teachers.
Glasgow mums' school sit-in
In Glasgow on Friday, a sit-in protest was organised by mums at Carnwadric Primary school to protest against its closure.
The 239-pupil school is threatened with a merger with another school onto a new site one-and-a-half miles walk away for students, next to a motorway and mobile phone mast.
The Evening Times recorded the incident:
ANGRY mums staged an all-night sit-in protest at a Glasgow primary school.
1996: Classrooms First! - A History of the 1996 Oakland Teacher's Strike
The history of the 1996 strike of teachers in Oakland, California for smaller class sizes and higher wages, which took up the slogan: "Classrooms First!"
£5bn city academies among worst schools
Half of the government's city academy schools are among the "worst performing schools" in Britain.
The effectively part-privatisation schemes are costing UK taxpayers £5 billion.
Of the 14 academies open long enough to be included in the leagues tables, seven are among the 200 lowest performing schools, based on the proportion of pupils achieving five or more good passes at GCSE.
Yorkshire teachers on strike over new roles
Teachers at a school in West Yorkshire are on strike today in a dispute about new staffing structures.
Pupils at Todmorden High School in Calderdale are affected by the one-day strike by members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT).
The row follows a complete overhaul of the staffing structure at every school in England and Wales.
A union spokesman said negotiations would start again but further strike action could not be ruled out.
'Demonstrate feelings'
Staffs teachers strike over pay
Teachers at three Stoke-on-Trent schools are on strike for a second time in a week in a dispute over pay.
Pupils were told to stay away from Trentham High, Holden Lane High and St Peter's High on Thursday.
The strikes started three months ago and more industrial action is planned for November.
