{"id":386,"date":"2012-04-17T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/protect-teaching-posts-in-rural-schools-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:18:06","slug":"protect-teaching-posts-in-rural-schools-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/protect-teaching-posts-in-rural-schools-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect teaching posts in rural schools \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Protect teaching posts\u00a0in rural schools \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s education spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has challenged the  government to ring-fence teaching posts to ensure rural schools in areas  of disadvantage are protected from staffing cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said he will raise the issue, with education minister  Ruair\u00ed Quinn, in the D\u00e1il on Thursday and will be seeking to know &#8220;why  some rural schools have been left out of the minister&#8217;s reversal in  budget staffing cuts to disadvantaged schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision by Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn to reverse the cuts to DEIS  schools after a Sinn Fein&#8217;s Private Members\u2019 Motion and following  December\u2019s budget was welcomed across the education sector and as they  targeted some of the most vulnerable children in education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same should apply to the rural schools that play an equally important role in tackling educational disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week a letter signed by teachers highlighted the plight of some  rural DEIS schools that risk losing at least one concessionary teaching  post. This move would appear to contradict Minister Quinn&#8217;s own public  commitments and needs to be addressed urgently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t make any sense if some DEIS schools are being  discriminated against because of their address or because they are in a  rural setting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am publicly calling on the Minister Quinn to stick to his public promises and hopefully bring some clarity to this mess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He needs to ensure that the teaching posts are secured so that  schools are able to meet the exceptional educational needs and deliver  on the best educational outcomes for their pupils.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protect teaching posts\u00a0in rural schools \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s education spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has challenged the government to ring-fence teaching posts to ensure rural schools in areas of disadvantage are protected from staffing cuts. Deputy Crowe said he will raise the issue, with education minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn, in the D\u00e1il on Thursday [&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-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}