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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/schools-repair-budgets-slashed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Andy Burnham accused Education Secretary Michael Gove of sending schools back to the 'dark ages'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-schools-repair-budgets-slashed.jpg" alt="Andy Burnham accused Education Secretary Michael Gove of sending schools back to the 'dark ages'"/></a></p>
<p>Schools will see their budgets for maintenance and repairs slashed by 80% next year as a result of Government cuts, Labour said.</p>
<p>Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham accused Education Secretary Michael Gove of sending schools back to the &#8220;dark ages&#8221; of crumbling classrooms and inadequate equipment.</p>
<p>Research commissioned from the independent House of Commons Library found that secondary schools would lose on average £86,000 from their budget for building work, repairs and computers. Primary schools will lose an average of £26,000.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are looking at a return to the bad old days of the 1980s when children tried to learn in crumbling classrooms with equipment not up to the job,&#8221; Mr Burnham said.</p>
<p>&#8220;With these cuts Michael Gove is sending schools back to the dark ages.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aides to Mr Gove said that the Government had already announced that the funds directly allocated to schools would be &#8220;much lower&#8221; next year.</p>
<p>&#8220;The reality is that on average we will be spending more on education capital over the next four years than Labour did in its first two terms,&#8221; one aide said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But unlike Labour we will be doing it efficiently and quickly and targeting schools most in need. Waste was endemic in Labour&#8217;s school building programme.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have prioritised frontline education spending and money for the poorest children rather than extravagant and expensive buildings.&#8221;</p>
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