Educate magazine

The headline news is our strike ballot over funding and pay. It opens on 3 October (by email, not post, as the law has changed) and closes on 15 December. Teachers in maintained schools in England are being asked to vote Yes to save education.

Members demand DfE steps in at debt-ridden trust plus: win on social media ban for under-16s; ‘horrific’ immigration policy harming US schools; NEU Trust fund helping members in tough times.

Marching Together against the far right plus: voting to Save Education at conference, support plans scandal - false capability claims, the school-based dog boosting wellbeing.

Voting YES: fighting back on pay, hours and funding, plus: we fought, we won! Members’ action saves jobs; nursery leader on anti-racism in early years; strikes force trust to drop virtual teacher

Striking over online lessons, plus: campaigning to end austerity in schools; Elaine Huggett's decades of anti-racism work; curriculum and assessment, a missed opportunity to reset education.

Campaign to raise the age for using social media, plus: school cuts, the latest from the frontline; stop the supply agency rip-off; history’s hidden heroes – rebalancing the curriculum.

Free School Meals goes to No. 10 plus: Fighting to save college A-levels, social media campaign on stolen childhoods, members on rewarding rep work.

Unions march against austerity, plus: Still fighting for pay and funding, winning on free school meals, AI in education.

Full report from NEU annual conference, plus: Harris success, maternity pay win, leadership convention