Dismayed by Conservative plans to cut school funding in Newton Aycliffe, local MP Phil Wilson will be voicing his concerns about the impact cuts will have to the education of local students. With Greenfield Community College set to lose a staggering half a million pounds and Woodham Academy set to lose a further £200,000, secondary schools in Aycliffe are facing difficult decisions. Difficult decisions which will also be facing our local primary schools with seven across Aycliffe set to lose up to £65,000 each. Planned Conservative cuts may force schools to reduce teaching staff, which could see Aycliffe schools lose 25 teachers meaning bigger class sizes for local children, and could leave some schools having to ask parents help pay for basic equipment. Despite our local schools facing severe spending cuts the Tories have rubbed-stamped plans for more than 130 enormously expensive new free schools elsewhere. Outraged by the injustice and inequality of the Conservative approach to education, MP Phil Wilson will be demanding the Tories explain how they can justify taking funding away from students in Newton Aycliffe, and the rest of his constituency, whilst spending extortionate amounts on free schools elsewhere in the country. Phil Wilson believes that students in Aycliffe, and elsewhere in his constituency, deserve to receive a quality
education, and he is prepared to fight the Tories to ensure this happens. Which is why on Wednesday 26th April, he will be raising this issue in Parliament. Before making his speech Phil said “It is completely unacceptable that schools in Aycliffe, and Sedgefield constituency, are facing such damaging cuts which will leave schools short of vital funds. I will not stand-by while the Conservatives force our schools to choose between basic equipment and teaching staff