{"id":24455,"date":"2023-01-26T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/26\/school-strike-thousands-of-pupils-to-stay-home\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T23:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:09:27","slug":"school-strike-thousands-of-pupils-to-stay-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=24455","title":{"rendered":"School strike: Thousands of pupils to stay home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We’d all like a little bit more money, but is it the way forward?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Thousands of pupils are being told to stay at home due to a teachers’ strike planned for Wednesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Many schools will close altogether and classes in some others will not run because of action by the National Education Union (NEU).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is the first of four planned strike days over pay by teachers and support staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Discussions between unions and the Education Minister Jeremy Miles have so far failed to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the same time, the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) is beginning industrial action short of a strike, which includes only doing some tasks in core hours and refusing to cover striking staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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NEU’s senior policy officer, Mary van den Heuvel, said the impact of the strike would be a “mixed picture”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Quite a few schools are going to be closing next week because they’ve got high density of our members,” she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Others with very few members in probably won’t see much of a difference.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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