A school rebuilding and repairs programme in England has been allocated £2bn to fund the next phase between 2015 and 2021. This comes as the first school rebuilt under the £2.4bn Priority School Building Programme is opened. Schools Minister David Laws said the scheme would "look at targeting individual school buildings, as well as whole school rebuilds". The ATL teachers' union dismissed it as a "drop in the ocean" and said that hundreds of thousands of pupils would still be taught in sub-standard buildings. The £2bn announced for upgrading school premises is part of the funding settlement for the six

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