OVER 1500 parents and pupils joined striking teachers in a march on Ealing town hall as the Tory council met on March 9 to set the council tax for the coming year. education cuts of 06m, and the loss of over 150 teaching and nonteaching jobs. While over 550 jobs across the borough will be axed, it is the schools budget which has provoked the most intense resistIn a year when education in Ealino laces massive reorganisation. most schools will see the loss of two or more teachers, and soaring Teachers fear they will not be able to meet the statutory requirements of the national curriculum and there has even been talk of part-lime coucallon or some pupils.
Parent governors meet on a regular basis to plan their opposi won, ano some coverine bodles have already passed resolutions conceing she cuts old seoul dancies.
There is a desperate need to link up with anti-culs strucales in oiner areas. Early March saw strikes trom National Union of Teachers members in at least four London boroughs. Yet calls for co-ordinated action across ine capital were ignored by the national