More than half of schools were forced to shut their doors to some pupils during the latest round of teacher strikes, new figures show.
Tens of thousands of members of the National Education Union (NEU) took part in walkouts on April 27 and May 2 as part of an increasingly bitter dispute over pay and working conditions.
But Tory Education Secretary Gillian Keegan is refusing to re-open pay talks with unions, despite the massive disruption to children's education. Instead she has passed the dispute to the pay review body.
