Teachers will join rallies and marches across the country to demand an increase in funding for schools and education.
Teachers across England will walk off the job today to protest "damaging" funding cuts to schools.
Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) are staging the one-day strike as part of a long-running dispute with the Government over what it describes as the "the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s".
It is expected to close or disrupt schools across the country.
The NUT, which voted 9-1 in favour of industrial action, will also stage marches and rallies in support of the strike.
Acting general secretary Kevin Courtney said teachers are not taking strike action "lightly", but consider the problems facing education "too great to ignore".
"The strike is about the underfunding of our schools and the negative impact it is having on children's education and teachers' terms and conditions," he said.
"Schools are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s. The decisions which head teachers have to make are damaging to our children and young people's education.
"Class sizes going up, school trips reduced, materials and resources reduced, and subjects - particularly in the arts - are being removed from the curriculum. Teaching posts are being cut or not filled when staff leave. All of this just to balance the books.
"No parent wants this for their children. No teacher wants this for their school or pupils. With political parties in turmoil since the EU referendum, it is imperative that education is put to the forefront of every election campaign.
"The problems schools face need addressing immediately. We must not let the education of the next generation be sidelined."
The NUT says its demands include an increase to funding in schools and education and for negations on teachers' contracts to resume to address workload concerns.
It has written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to call for "meaningful" discussions to tackle issues it said were damaging education.
The Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has backed the strike, warning that funding cuts are leading to a "poorer education for pupils".
"Teachers are striking in defence of the education their pupils, and future pupils, receive," she said.
"Schools that I visit up and down the country tell me they are struggling to maintain the quality of education in the face of slashed funding.
"Some are being forced into making teachers and support staff redundant, which means a poorer education for pupils. Others are resisting that at the cost of spending on building maintenance, spending that can't be postponed indefinitely."
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