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Daniel Kebede is General Secretary of the National Education Union.
Right now, a third of children in poverty are being denied free school meals — and the teachers feeding them often go hungry themselves. It’s a disgraceful state of affairs that shows the necessity of universal free school meals.
The government’s lack of interest in stopping schools from collapsing is about more than just education — it is a complete abandonment of political will, writes NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede.
Today, 300,000 teachers are on strike. They’re fighting not only against low pay, but to end the crisis in education.