Title: Free book scheme abolished except DEIS schools who get 7m
1Free 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)
2- 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
3- 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
5School 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.
6- 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
7Random 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
8- 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
10- 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
11- 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
12- 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)
13- 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)