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Ever since the council budget passed in February, we have been bringing you the latest developments around plans to slash teacher numbers in Glasgow.

Here’s the deal: Glasgow City Council is facing a massive budget black hole, and in an attempt to fill it, officials have had to consider things that, until recently, would have been seen as entirely unacceptable.

For years, councils have tried to protect teacher numbers – in no small part because of pressure from central government – and broader education spending, but there was always going to come a time when they would run out of that particular road. That’s where we are now.

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Indeed, when I spoke to the council’s education convener a few months back, she argued that they had been left with no other choice but to look at cuts to teacher numbers, telling me that there was “just no other way to slice it this year.”

Basically, the situation is so dire that money will now have to be found from education budgets – specifically, from the salaries paid to people working in education.

The result? An SNP-Green........

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