New plan for funding schools

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Grammar schools in England may ask parents for hundreds of pounds a year to cope with funding cuts, their head teachers' association has warned.
A majority of grammars will be left worse off by proposed funding changes, according to analysis by the Grammar School Heads' Association.
A number of Conservative MPs are urging the government to change its plans.
But the Department for Education said it was ending a postcode lottery in school funding.

The new system is designed to support deprived areas by reallocating existing funding.


One head who attended the meeting - Sarah Burns of the Sandbach Boys School free school, Cheshire - said she would have to consider running her school on a four-day week, scrapping the sixth form or cutting arts subjects from the syllabus.
She said: "They are absolutely realistic possibilities given the level of cuts and the fact that we've already cut to the bone.
"Given those levels of cuts we will have to take some really hard decisions like those."
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "We are going to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding.
"Under the proposed national schools funding formula, more than half of England's schools will receive a cash boost in 2018-19."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38739744

Yes, redirect funding away from those that don't deserve to be educated. The fact that schools may be asking for money is even mentioned as an option usually means that they will. When parents can't afford the charges will the parents be fined for not sending their kids to that school? May as well make people who can't pay pay suffer some more *shrug*