NEWS: British Prime Minister David Cameron promises no to cut school funding
David Cameron has promised not to cut England's schools budget in a future Conservative government.
The prime minister said funding per pupil would not be cut and would provide a further £7bn for places for rising numbers of pupils - but will not rise in line with inflation.
Mr Cameron said hundreds more secondary schools would become academies.
Labour's Tristram Hunt said the promise to protect funding was "unravelling" and represented a "real-terms cut".
On funding, the prime minister promised to protect "flat cash" per pupil spending, which would reduce in value with inflation.
Mr Cameron said this would mean "difficult decisions", but the government had demonstrated that with greater efficiency "more could be achieved with less".
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