Schools face strike action as teachers escalate pay dispute.

The article discusses strike against schools in Scotland after an escalation of a dispute over pay and conditions by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT). Topics discussed include campaign by the education secretary John Swinney to raise attainment in schools through reforms, strike to begin by teachers at St Andrew's Secondary School, Eastbank Academy and All Saints Secondary School; and overdue of pay reward.