Exclusion from State funding undermines guarantees to protect minority faith education, schools say
Protestant fee-charging secondary schools have warned the Department of Education that the future of many schools is at risk due to the sector being 'frozen out' of a growing number of State grantsthat the future of many schools is at risk due to the sector being “frozen out” of a growing number of State grants.
Over the past 15 years, the association says parents who decided to educate their children in the faith of their families have “borne the brunt” of successive cuts to ancillary grants, pupil-teacher ratios and career guidance allocation.
“This is a key point of difference: for most parents in Ireland there has always existed choice with regard to the majority Catholic ethos or multidenominational or non-denominational schools. For Protestant families, that breadth of choice in their locality has not been available.” This scheme aims to ensure that Protestant children who satisfy a means test can attend a school of their choice and can be used by the student to help pay boarding costs or tuition fees where the recipient attends a fee-charging school.
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