Inequities in Irish education policy, which have been ignored for so long, will not be addressed any time soon
The OECD team described the investment in Deis in terms of the overall education budget as 'quite modest'. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA WireLast year Minister for Education Norma Foley announced she had invited the OECD to review the way resources were allocated to the Deis programme of support for schools in disadvantaged communities.
In their report, the team displayed an understanding of the theory: “The rationale for the Deis approach is the existence of a ‘multiplier effect’, whereby students attending a school with a concentration of students from disadvantaged backgrounds have poorer academic outcomes, even taking account of individual social background.” Yet, at various stages they placed strong emphasis on what they described as the “non-disadvantaged students” in Deis schools.
The teacher supply crisis is hitting Deis schools hardest. We have written at length in these columns on the scale of the crisis and have witnessed first hand the impact through our work with Deis schools under the Power2Progress programme.
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