Polanski's Bold Education Plan: Pay Rise, Less Exams, Tax the Rich

0:00On March 30, Zach Polansky, the Green Party leader, laid out bold plans for education at the National Education Union Conference in Brighton. He promised teachers a hefty pay rise, bigger than labor's 6.5% over three years, fewer exams in schools stepping up to fight the far right, all funded by taxes on the ultra-wealthy. He also called to scrap-off-stead, calling it a toxic failure, and revamped the Academy's program. Zachy slammed endless testing for shrinking kids' horizons and hit labor for real-terms cuts since 2010, saying schools need a serious. Cash injection now. Delegates loved it, giving him over 10 rounds of applause and a standing ovation at the end. Union bosses invited only him as the sole party leader, citing polls showing greens as the top choice among their teacher members. This comes amid cooling ties with labor, after the union accused them of underfunding schools earlier this week. Polansky painted a grim picture of hungry, tired kids, missing class, due to the cost

1:03of living crisis, vowing rent controls and public water to fix it. He's kicking off a union tour to position greens' labor's replacement, aiming to pump that tax wealth back into classrooms where accounts.