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Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill
(www.theguardian.com)
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Am I missing something or does the UK has a different system from other countries and schools get some additional money from some other sources besides the state?
If not, where else is the money supposed to come from? Spending cuts are directly going to decrease the students ability to learn.
It means state funding will not increase to cover the whole of the cost increase. The schools will have to find the rest in their own budgets - by cutting costs in other areas.
Majority of state schools only have their income from either the local authority or the trust they are part of, so yeah, reduced funds. Its how the majority of recent money for pay rises has been expected to be funded.
Couple this with up till just very recently rampant SLT and trust salaries consuming ever more money from a limited pot and you have why schools have rapidly gone backwards.
One of our local MATs has a CEO on £400k plus £60k pension contribution per year. AND a personal car and chauffeur to drive him from school to school. Apparently, it's like royalty arriving when he turns up to do a tour and shout at people.
Sounds very familiar. I know a head teacher who gave his wife a SLT job with no teaching or actual responsibility, she won't even do emergency cover for lessons and he won't pay for supply teachers either.
The whole system is self awarded CEO pay on speed run.
I've known decent teachers (and really effective classroom teachers) utterly corrupted by becoming senior managers and the stink of money and authority. They turn into the people they despised when they started their careers.