An education system rigged against the poor | Letters

‘We may fast be returning to a world which resembles the 1950s,’ writes John Somers.The first is that the government is not fully funding the extra costs that schools now face.For the government to claim that it is “protecting the core schools budget in real terms” is factually incorrect, assuming that, in these “post-truth days” we can agree on the meaning of the word “real”.