Meeting of the Parliament 10 February 2016
Until Labour decides, we will keep focused on the job at hand: making less work better, delivering real investments and tangible improvements for all our children, maintaining teacher numbers so that our children get a high-quality learning experience, replacing a quarter of all schools so that more children learn in decent environments, and giving every three and four-year-old 600 hours of free early learning and childcare and every child in primary 1 to primary 3 a free school meal so that they can get a better start in life. That is the kind of success that a competent Government delivers—the kind that is delivered on promises that are meant to be kept, rather than pledges made on the cheap.
I move amendment S4M-15588.3, to leave out from “agrees” to end and insert:
“welcomes the estimated £7.2 billion invested in education in 2015-16; further welcomes the increase in local government education resource spending of at least £208 million since 2006-07 and the planned increase of 3.3% in 2015-16; believes that Scottish education is already performing well, with attainment improving; notes the OECD view that. Scottish education has the potential to lead the world; further believes therefore that there is more to do to improve education, and agrees that protection of the pupil-teacher ratio, investment in closing the attainment gap and reform of how attainment is assessed is the right way forward.”
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