Article: Teachers at risk in funding crisis ; Teachers' jobs are under threat in the East Riding, where low funding is forcing cash-starved schools into making cuts.

Teachers' jobs are under threat in the East Riding, where low funding is forcing cash-starved schools into making cuts.

Dozens of posts could go, with at least 20 schools thought to be looking at job cuts.

East Riding Council has confirmed as many as 30 teachers and 14 support staff could be facing redundancy.

Government funding, which is skewed in favour of inner cities and deprived areas, has left East Riding schools starved of cash.

The area is the fourth worst-funded out of 150 education authorities across the country.

East Riding schools received pounds3,534 per pupil in 2007-08 - half the amount awarded to top-funded authorities such as the City of London, which received pounds7,089.

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