Teachers volunteer for £7,000 pay cut to save colleagues’ jobs

Five members of staff at Furzedown primary in London take reductions of up to 20%

Teachers at a cash-strapped primary school have volunteered to take a £7,000-a-year pay cut to save the jobs of colleagues.

Schools across the country are so short of funds that headteachers are being forced to make drastic cutbacks. In a stark example of the funding squeeze, Furzedown primary school, in the south London borough of Wandsworth, had instigated a series of measures to balance its books and was facing the possibility of making redundancies.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2TN9Gh6