SCHOOL principals are demanding an urgent meeting with the secretary of state over massive budget cuts.
Extra funding of £10 million was announced last month, but the Primary Principals Group said nothing has been allocated.
Debts are soaring with schools predicted to be millions in the red in the next three years.
The overall education budget, announced in July, is £24m less than the closing 2016/17 budget.
An additional £10m was found, but schools and education bodies are still being forced to make savings.
The extra money came from the reallocation of cash across Stormont departments, but heads say they are yet to see a penny.
Unions have warned that the cuts will mean schools will find it impossible to maintain their high quality of education.
Principals in Belfast have already written to parents, education bodies and politicians warning they would not make any further reductions.
Now the primary heads group, which includes 375 principals, has renewed its call for an immediate increase of at least 7 per cent in school budgets.
They also want a "guaranteed year-on-year increase to school budgets in line with inflation for at least the next five years" and clarity on how the additional £50m for education announced after the DUP-Tory deal will be used.
