Anas Sarwar called on the new First Minister to 'step in and save jobs' as dozens of teaching roles risk being axed at Scotland's largest local authority.
John Swinney has been accused by Scottish Labour of being "at the heart of every SNP failure of the last 17 years" as his long record in Government was scrutinised today.
Glasgow City Council, the largest in the country, has previously warned it will be forced to cut 172 positions from its education budget this year - with a further 450 roles at risk over the next three years. "So don't give us the warm words, don't try and explain away the record, tell the pupils, their parents and their teachers - what are you going to do to protect their education?"
"As Education Secretary, he abandoned teachers, standards declined, the attainment gap widened, Scotland fell in the international league tables, and shamefully he downgraded the results of working class children during the pandemic.
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