Schools are already bursting – they need more funding now, Michael Gove | Anne Perkins

 'Michael Gove’s own expansion of free childcare for four-year-olds seems to have escaped serious consideration.'
The Local Government Association is warning that in two years' time half of all primary school districts will have more children than places – in some districts, they'll have to accommodate 20% more children. But already in some areas they're bulging. Take Gascoigne primary in Barking, one of the borough's six 1,000+ "titan" primaries, where they already have five classes

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