{"id":336,"date":"2011-12-18T20:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-must-reverse-teacher-cuts-to-deis-schools-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:32:49","slug":"government-must-reverse-teacher-cuts-to-deis-schools-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-must-reverse-teacher-cuts-to-deis-schools-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must reverse teacher cuts to DEIS schools \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Government must reverse teacher cuts to DEIS schools \u2013 Crowe <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has called on the  government to reverse the cuts that will result in the loss of hundreds  of teaching posts to DEIS band schools in disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after appearing on the This Week programme on RT\u00c9 today Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unjustifiable cuts announced in this month\u2019s budget have  targeted schools that teach children from some of our most deprived and  disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my own constituency of Dublin South West there are fears that  anywhere up to\u00a040 teachers will be lost to West Tallaght with one school  losing possibly 12 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis targeted approach against the\u00a0poor and disadvantaged\u00a0follows  the loss\u00a0from many of these same\u00a0schools of Special Needs Assistants,  Traveller Allocation Teachers and Language Support for the improvement  in numeracy and literacy skills and a rise in the educational attainment  level of many pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loss of these posts will have a serious long term detrimental  effect on the children and local communities. It is yet another attack  on some of our most vulnerable and\u00a0makes a mockery of Labour\u2019s public  commitments to protect the educational rights of children and those  marginalised by poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cuts in teaching posts follow a cut of \u20ac2million for the  school completion works and a 2% reduction in capitation fees for each  school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is obvious that this government has specifically targeted schools  in disadvantaged areas believing there will\u00a0not be as much controversy  or protest against their measures.\u00a0This decision, like the one to cut  young people\u2019s disability allowance, is morally reprehensible and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of these children\u2019s life chances and future well being depend  on education.\u00a0 Minister\u00a0Quinn\u00a0must revise this policy and immediately  reverse these cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government must reverse teacher cuts to DEIS schools \u2013 Crowe \u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has called on the government to reverse the cuts that will result in the loss of hundreds of teaching posts to DEIS band schools in disadvantaged areas. Speaking after appearing on the This Week programme on RT\u00c9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}