BBC News: School parents lobbied as budgets tighten

Parents in England will be hearing a lot more about school budgets in the next few years.

Until recently many will not have tuned into the gap – which can be as much as £2,000 to £3,000 per pupil – between different areas.

But with the stakes increasingly high for schools as their budgets tighten, the direct lobbying of parents has been ramping up.

School parents lobbied as budgets tighten – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38310844