NASUWT: Phonics funding take-up a 'dash for cash'
Thursday, 19 January 2012
2:47 PM
Commenting on the Department for Education’s latest figures on the number of primary schools signing up to use the Government’s new phonics materials, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“The fact that ‘thousands’ of schools are signing up for phonics funding should not be taken as support for the Government’s policy of imposing phonics on schools.
“This is a dash for cash, driven by school budgets being slashed.
“The Government’s mantra of ‘trust the professionals’ has a hollow ring in the context of imposing a one-size-fits-all policy dictating how teachers will teach all children to read.”
ENDS
Stuart Gannon
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