{"id":354,"date":"2012-01-27T20:47:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/education-minister-fails-to-provide-clarity-around-deis-school-review\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:47:30","slug":"education-minister-fails-to-provide-clarity-around-deis-school-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/education-minister-fails-to-provide-clarity-around-deis-school-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister fails to provide clarity around DEIS school review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Education Minister fails to provide clarity around DEIS school review<br \/> ________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><\/p>\n<p> Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> believes clarity is needed from the Government over whether they are really serious about reversing the threat arising from December\u2019s budget cuts to teaching posts in DEIS and other schools.<\/p>\n<p> The Dublin South West TD was commenting after challenging Education Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn on the matter during a meeting of the D\u00e1il\u2019s Education Committee.<\/p>\n<p> Deputy Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said;<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cIn response to my questions regarding what the review into cuts to DEIS schools hoped to achieve, Minister Quinn again gave vague answers that failed to convince.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThere are serious concerns arising around the substance of the review, particularly in relation to the possible loss of 428 pre DEIS legacy posts. The terms of the review are also unclear with worries that DEIS schools will be forced to compete with one another in order to retain their current staffing levels. I also sought assurances that the review would not recommend cuts across other key services in the primary school budget but his responses did not inspire confidence that this would be the case.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAt today\u2019s meeting, Minister Quinn came under close scrutiny and there is growing scepticism that the Government is serious about protecting schools that are to the fore in tackling educational disadvantage. The growing descent amongst the Government back-benchers shows just how badly the Minister has handled this matter.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe current confusion over what is happening is demoralising for teachers, parents and children. Clarity is needed now more than ever and we need a clear commitment from the Minister that DEIS and other schools, which have a proven track record, are protected from budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Minister has already admitted to making a mistake in how he has dealt with this issue. He must not make matters worse by prevaricating after making the decision to hold the review. He needs to realise the gravity of the situation and the impact these cuts will have on some of our most vulnerable children. It is their right to a decent education and a good start in life that must be the priority. Anything less is unacceptable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister fails to provide clarity around DEIS school review ________________________________________________________ Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe believes clarity is needed from the Government over whether they are really serious about reversing the threat arising from December\u2019s budget cuts to teaching posts in DEIS and other schools. The Dublin South West TD was commenting [&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-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}