It seems to me incontrovertible that two nearby schools serving the same communities should not be funded differently, just because they are in different boroughs. School funding is a minefield, though, and it is not obvious how to make the system fairer. Any national formula will lead to “winners” and “losers” and the reduced funding for the losers will be traumatic, however “fair” it is.
Let’s pretend, though, that the government has already implemented national funding for all schools. Will that be an end to the postcode lottery? Of course not, as the most cursory look at the health system will confirm. National health funding combines with local decision making, and has not led to any sort of uniformity of care or quality of provision. The same would be true for education.
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