Free book scheme abolished except DEIS schools who get 7m

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Free book scheme abolished (except DEIS schools
who get 7m) - Disadvantaged in every school
- All schools including those with
disadvantaged status lose out Post-Primary
Grants gone - Transition Year (TYO)....100
p.s. - Leaving Certificate Vocational
Programme (LCVP)....equip 78,000 - Home
Economics....51,000 p.a. - Leaving
Certificate Applied (LCA)....159 p.s. -
Physics Chemistry ....overall 800,000 p.a.
- Choirs Orchestras....26,000 p.a. -
Junior Certificate Schools Programme
(JCSP)....64 p.s. - Equipment grant for
resource teachers gone - Library grants gone
(2.19m)
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• Funding for Traveller children reduced from 426
  to 213 p.s.
• Implications....
• - less support available
• - likely to stay at school
• Re-imposition of ceiling for language support
  teachers max of 2 per school

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• All schools will lose out
• Children will lose out
• Programmes offered may be curtailed
• Subject choice may be diminished
• Disadvantaged and marginalise students will
  overall lose out
• E.g. School of approx.800 pupils
• - with disadvantage status (not DEIS)
• - with 15 non-national students
• - with normal cohort of disadvantaged students
• - could lose up to approx 100,000 in funding
• - could lose between 4-5 teachers depending on
• particular circumstances

4

• Increase in cost of school transport
• 2 children at JC from 336 to 600
• Loss of book grant up to 500
• LCA and TY grants gone gt100 per pupil required
  from parents
• Changes - for more than one student could mean up
  to 1,000 extra costs

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School example

• School 1 (DAS but not DEIS) 350 pupils
• Loss of 1.5 teachers (includes HSCL Teacher)
• On PTR loss of 2 more teachers
• Losing 3.5 teachers out of 25 (115 class
  periods).
• Sole PE teacher and Music teacher to go
• Severe losses to 1st year curriculum
• Will either have to give up TY or have less LC
  options
• School will lose 23,000 will curtail events
  programmes.

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• State Examinations Commission fees up 8
• Summer courses in Irish (supplement)....1.25m
• Grants for teachers going to Gaeltacht.....2m
• School Transport changes from Sept.2009
• - 168 p. s. junior cycle 234 p. s. senior
  cycle
• to 300 p. elig. child paid up front
• - max 650 per family
• - medical card families special needs exempt

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Random School survey

• Loss of 3.14 teachers on PTR
• Additional loss of 1 teacher on language support
• DAS but not DEIS further loss of 1.5 teachers
• 75 loss of substitution XC events lost
• Average grants loss 16,738 per school
• Book Grant loss 14,883 per school

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• Education seriously under funded in Ireland
• Ireland 27th in OECD table of GDP invested in
  education
• Ireland invest 4.6 GDP in Education
• Denmark invest 8.4 GDP
• PPEF set up to lobby for greater investment in
  education
• Budget cuts set us back even further

9

• National Development Plan Funding for Computers
  in Schools postponed
• 252m on ICT 2007-2013 ......future?
• Important for children
• Already lagging behind EU investment norms
• ICT facilities in schools broadband, hardware,
  maintenance, software, licences, upgrades
• ICT expensive and schools lack resources for
  future development
• Computers are 4-6 years old in most Community and
  Comprehensive Schools

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• Non implementation of Special Needs Act
• Ensures statutory right to suitable education for
  people with special educational needs
• Act had not fully commenced (up to 2010)
• On hold
• These children will have special educational
  needs met on a non-statutory basis
• Struggle to secure a suitable education for
  children with special education needs
• Equipment Materials Grant for Resource
  Teachers gone special needs children lose out

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• Funding for disadvantaged children slashed
• Disadvantaged in all schools
• Schools with Disadvantaged School Status lose
  some special teacher posts e.g. HSCL person,
  Guidance
• Teachers will lose positions and thus educational
  services will deteriorate and expertise built up
  is lost
• DEIS schools continue with supports

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• 250 teachers less- 15 m
• Abolition of grants - 5.3 m
• Reduction of capitation DAS Travellers - 2 m
• Book Grant - 7.5 m
• Library grants - 2.19 m
• School Transport - 21 m
• SEC increase of fees by 8
• Teacher substitution 16 m
• (2 Reduction of professional fees on capital
  projects 10 m)

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• PTR change from 181 to 191, 161 to 171
• Re-imposition of ceiling for language support
  teachers max of 2
• Withdrawal of DAS posts from non-DEIS schools
• Capitation up 14 per pupil now 345
• Abolition of grants (loss 3 times greater than
  gain under capitation)