{"id":378146,"date":"2018-09-22T04:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-government-attempt-to-gag-teachers-as-cuts-deepen\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T04:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:06:40","slug":"uk-government-attempt-to-gag-teachers-as-cuts-deepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-government-attempt-to-gag-teachers-as-cuts-deepen\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government attempt to gag teachers as cuts deepen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK government attempt to gag teachers as cuts deepen<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Tania Kent<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 September 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The broad-based opposition to massive austerity in education has provoked a threatening directive from the UK Conservative government to school staff to stay silent on the terrible impact the cuts are having on education.<\/p>\n<p>An update issued by the government\u2019s Department for Education (DfE) to all schools as they returned from the summer break\u2014billed as departmental advice for school leaders, governing bodies and local authorities\u2014contained a new paragraph with a blunt statement in a staff management section.<\/p>\n<p>In the document titled, \u201cStaffing and employment advice for schools,\u201d the section reads: \u201cAll staff have a responsibility to ensure that they act appropriately in terms of their behaviour, the views they express (political views) and the use of school resources at all times, and should not use school resources for party political purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A DfE spokesman added, \u201cThis update simply brings \u2026 guidance in line with the law, which makes clear that headteachers and local authorities must not promote partisan political views in school.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The warning, first reported by the <em>Schools Week<\/em> newspaper, comes after campaigns by school leaders over budget cuts since 2016, which included lobbies of parliament by head teachers and letters sent to parents across the UK informing them of the impact of cuts, and calling on them to lobby MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The government reaction, to what is a very limited opposition organised by the trade unions, must be seen as a warning, that not only will school cuts continue unabated, but that the government will move forcefully against any attempts to block their agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Austerity has had a devastating impact on sectors in education across all regions.<\/p>\n<p>Research&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/09\/21\/educ-s21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK government attempt to gag teachers as cuts deepen By Tania Kent 21 September 2018 The broad-based opposition to massive austerity in education has provoked a threatening directive from the UK Conservative government to school staff to stay silent on the terrible impact the cuts are having on education. An update issued by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}