TimesLIVE reports that according to Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer, the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) was determined to undermine attempts to improve schools in the province.  

Delivering her final budget speech in the provincial legislature on Wednesday, Schäfer said Sadtu was variously opposing departmental plans to publish assessments of schools; open more collaboration schools with private-sector partners; and establish a schools evaluation authority.  The MEC indicated that Sadtu had gone to court to challenge the bill that introduced school assessments and collaboration schools, and was also attempting to stop classroom observations by the new evaluation authority.  She also said the arrival of 20,000 pupils this year from other provinces was putting her department under financial strain, because government funding did not follow the children to the Western Cape.

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