Having gained some concessions from te inner London caucation autonly, the striking staff of William Tyndale Junior School returned to work last week. The Authority has given them access to the documents they required, and assurances that the activities of the managers will be looked into.
But the battle is tar from over. The inspectors wno took over me school during the strike have produced a report which virtually claims that no education at all had been going on. Certainly somethe school. Mr. Roy Price, Divisional Education Officer, has been quoted as saying: "All the children on roll at William Tyndale could be accommodated in local schools." This is an open vitation to conrused parchis to trans Association has passed a resolution their members not to accept transfers from William Tyndale.
Despite the ILEA's attempts to pass itself off as a neutral body, it has come to light that it ignored repeated requests as long as 18 months ago to investigate the school managers. As soon as there was a request calling for the sacking of the headmaster from the managers, how ever, the Authority set up machinery for the inspection with extremely flexible Whatever the outcome of the enquiry, -it is vital that the basic problems of literac and numeracy in Inner City schoolswhich are being increased by the Labour Government's spending cuts are not fobbed off onto the backs of radical
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