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Theyll have to make teaching assistants redundant or cut their hours. the government says it is giving schools an extra four billion pounds in funding this year. heres our education editor, branwen jeffreys. its all go for these four and five—year—olds, learning through new experiences. but making the sums add up is getting harder. some teaching assistants have left and not been replaced. thats because the bills are going up. we are tightening our belts and it gets to a point where, how much...

The cost to the school of each meal up from £2.30 to £2.87. the bus for one school trip, up from £870 to £1,070. paper, up from £1.95 a box to £3.87. this school won�*t put up the school meal price. family budgets are already squeezed. parents know it�*s hitting the school too. schools are having to use the budget they�*ve got to pay the pay rises for the teachers, and then everything else is increasing. it will have a detrimental effect, probably, next year or the year after. i thin...

The cost to the school of each meal up from £2.30 to £2.87. the bus for one school trip, up from £870 to £1,070. paper, up from £1.95 a box to £3.87. this school wont put up the school meal price. family budgets are already squeezed. parents know its hitting the school too. schools are having to use the budget theyve got to pay the pay rises for the teachers, and then everything else is increasing. it will have a detrimental effect, probably, next year or the year after. i think theres a l...

>> now, the plan does not address the debt ceiling. you see the debt clock there. it ticks down to august 2nd. thats when the u.s. could start defaulting on some of its bills. it could be a jumping-off point for a bigger deal. here are some of the highlights of the plan according to cnn senate forces, it shaves about $4 trillion off the debt load. rejiggers the tax load, cuts short-term spending by about $500 billion. it changes the entire budgeting process and it reforms social securi...