Protect (public) education systems, teachers, other education employees, students and children against the negative effects of the debt and economic crises and the implementation of detrimental market mechanisms
Advocate for adequate and equitable long term funding investment in public school systems (increased capital and recurrent investment) of at least 6% of GDP; promote the expansion of fiscal space, including FTT, through the generation of additional revenue rather than the use of austerity policies
Counter legislative and other measures privatising and outsourcing public provision of education; give special attention to vulnarable sectors, including Early Childhood Education, Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education and Research
Campaign for the achievement of all EFA goals; advocate for predictable, long term Official Development Assistance to Education with increasing domestic expenditure; Implement the EI Pledge made to the Global Partnership for Education (November 2011)
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