As the Guardian notes:
Schools in better-off neighbourhoods are expected to be the winners under coalition plans for education spending, which will see money shifting from councils in "more deprived" areas to richer ones, according to research published today.
No surprise there then.
And so much for the LibDem pupil premium.
Cameron seems intent on dividing Britain — and that’s what he’s going to do.
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Research? Crystal Balls more like.
Except they aren’t “richer” schools.
The per capita element of school funding in many inner cities (read Labour voting constituencies) is far higher than the national average, meaning that amounts received in many rural areas is far lower. Empirical evidence suggests that the 38% of schools running budget surpluses of more than 8% are predominantly in the inner cities and not in rural areas where very few schools run a surplus.
Cameron isn’t dividing Britain, but rebalancing the allocation of funding more equally between schools. Aldershot, Andover and Ashford (to pick just 3 names at random beginning with ‘A’) may be in the South but they are not particularly prosperous and there is no reason other than party prejudice why they should be given per capita funding that is 20% lower than that in Bury, Burnley or Bolton (to pick 3 names at random beginning with ‘B’).