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School building scheme halted
EDUCATION secretary Michael Gove today confirmed a freeze of the schools building programme as part of his proposed £3.5bn cuts to education spending.
The plans will mean that 715 building projects are not carried out and 123 academy schemes are to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, hitting mostly marginal constituencies.
Gove called the Building Schools for the Future programme, which started under Labour, “dysfunctional” and “unnecessarily undemocratic”.
Shadow education secretary Ed Balls, responded by saying: “It’s a black day for our country’s schools”.