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Today our big front-page story is an exclusive report on the education cuts being implemented by Glasgow City Council.
In contrast to what some politicians would have you believe, reductions in school staff numbers are already underway, and now teachers and parents are warning about the extremely serious consequences of the decisions being made.
These cuts are being presented as a ‘redesign’ of services, but that’s just a transparent (and if we’re honest, pretty incompetent) attempt at spinning the unspinnable.
Exclusive: Teachers and parents warn of a 'state of emergency' as Glasgow education cuts begin
In response to our coverage of this latest development, Glasgow City Council issued a statement that, amongst other things, hit out at “alarmist and inaccurate information”. That’s some pretty serious stuff, and made me think that it might be worth going through the whole comment in a bit more detail.
So why don’t we do just that?
So first thing’s first, this is the admission that our........