The Guardian view on 'levelling up' schools: a slogan without substance | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Mr Brown made some headway: by 2010, he had raised state school funding by 20% to a high point of £7,200 per pupil.
54% : Even with Boris Johnson's promised extra £7bn in state school spending, per-pupil expenditure in 2023 will still be "1 to 2% lower in real terms" than in 2010.
52% : In the last decade, independent school income has raced away while state school spending per pupil in England, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has seen the largest cut - 9% in real terms - in over 40 years.
46% : While state school funding has dropped since 2010, private school income has zoomed ahead.
46% : Most of the spending is concentrated in London and the south-east, which has three times the number of private schools than the north-east.
45% : In 2006, he said that his "long-term aim" was to fund state school pupils at the same level as those in private schools.

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