School ‘dentistry duty’ gets the brush-off from leaders’ union Labour’s pledges ‘supervised toothbrushing’ for reception pupils
Council faces legal challenge over falling rolls closure plan Head questions ‘protection’ of academies and free schools in council’s school closures plan
Two in five trusts shun tutoring as finances worsen Just 46% of CEOs are confident about the financial sustainability of their trusts, down from 77% last year
Rising costs risk pledge to restore school funding to 2010 levels IFS predicts school purchasing power will actually be 3% lower than in 2010 by next year
Sunak to replace A-levels with ‘Advanced British standard’ PM wants to merge A-levels and T-levels into new single qualification for sixth formers to study five subjects including ‘some form’ of English and maths
Ofsted has gone from ‘critical friend to just critic’ says children’s tsar Dame Rachel de Souza likens incoming chief inspector to a ‘new Pope’, who can ‘fix what went wrong’
School mobile phone ‘ban’ won’t be statutory But Gillian Keegan warned government will consider introducing new law if schools don’t follow advice
One in ten cash-strapped councils under government monitoring FOI reveals 17 councils have so far been ordered to submit ‘action plans’ to cut deficits to the ESFA this year
Fact check: Could state schools deal with ‘influx’ of private kids? Changing demographics help Labour’s argument that its policy won’t negatively affect the state sector