School funding needs fundamental reforms | Letters from Emma Knights and Alan Howarth

No doubt governing boards across England were pleased to see your coverage of school budgets as they consider how they are going to balance the books in the coming financial years. However, one of the statements in your editorial (7 April) gives very much the wrong impression; you conclude that beneficial changes have meant "all schools are treated in a similar way".

School funding is hideously complicated, and in fact the result of changes to funding allocations made by central government over the past five years has been to increase the differences between similar schools in different parts of the country. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has charted the increasing variations from the mean of funding per pupil over a long period.