If you cut budgets and push out teachers then life in school will become even harder for the most disadvantaged – Angela Rayner

Angela
Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the EPI report on
trends in educational attainment and disadvantage, said:

“The
findings of this report are deeply concerning but unfortunately come as no
surprise. 

“If you cut school budgets and push out  teachers, as the Tories have
done, then life in school will become even harder for the most disadvantaged
kids. It is no wonder that we are still generations away from closing the
attainment gap.

"The Tories’ key election pledge was to bring back grammar schools and
segregate our children, a move that would make the situation even worse. A
Labour Government would deliver an education system for the many, not the few.”