Poverty-related attainment gap still far too wide | glasgowpam
Yesterday thousands of pupils across Scotland got their exam results, putting months of uncertainty to an end.
What this means is that fewer children from our poorest areas get to university, there is lower representation of minorities in professions and stagnating numbers of people with additional support needs are getting on in education. The SNP promised to close the attainment gap. They haven’t done that. Too many of the people they promised to help are still being failed.
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