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School funding dominates first PMQs since election called

Theresa May defends school funding as general election countdown beginsTheresa May has defended school funding levels in the first Prime Minister's Questions since she called a snap general election.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn this afternoon used two of his questions in the House of Commons to attack the government on school funding.He said: "Schools funding being cut for the first time in a generation. The prime minster is cutting £3 billion a year from school budgets by 2020."The National Audit Office has said schools will have to make £3 billion of savings by 2019-20.He told MPs: "Our children's schools are starved of the resources they need to educate our children in the future", and raised the number of parents receiving letters from schools begging for money for books.Ms May replied: "There are record levels of funding going into our schools."She added that Labour was offering "one size fits all, local authority-run schools, no choice, good or bad, trust your luck. We don't trust to luck, and we won't trust the Labour Party. We will provide a good school place for every child."The prime minister said she would look at the financial problems faced by small rural schools.Conservative Maria Caulfield told her that, in Lewes, many small rural schools would suffer funding cuts under the proposed national funding formula.The prime minister: “I recognise that small rural schools, particularly, have particular issues and I am very happy to look at those concerns to ensure that we get the finding formula right and we can spread the money as fairly as possible.”