{"id":490,"date":"2012-09-04T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/schools-buckling-under-cuts-to-capitation-grant\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T09:18:03","slug":"schools-buckling-under-cuts-to-capitation-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/schools-buckling-under-cuts-to-capitation-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools buckling under cuts to capitation grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Bright; font-size: x-small;\">Schools buckling under cuts to capitation grant<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-size: x-small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the crisis facing schools resulting from Government cuts is starkly illustrated by reports this week that children starting the new term in a Cork primary school had been asked to supply their own toilet roll, soap, and hand towels . <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-size: x-small;\">Deputy Crowe said: \u201cIt is outrageous that parents of pupils at Gaelscoil Chloch na gCoillte in Clonakilty, Co Cork, have been asked to supply their children with a wash bag containing the most basic toiletry items and it shows the impact resulting from cuts in Department of Education funding over recent years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #2f2f2f; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cIn this instance, Principal Carmel Nic Airt said that despite a rise in enrolment numbers at the school to 320, grants for running costs, maintenance, secretarial, and caretaking last year fell by almost \u20ac25,500 to \u20ac101,587. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn the past two years the school capitation grant has been cut by 8.5% and this is placing principals and boards of management in an impossible position as heating, lighting insurance bills continue to rise. Other schools are being forced to implement similar measures as Gaelscoil Chloch na gCoillte and we seem to going back to a time when children were expected to bring the teacher an apple or provide a sod of turf to help with the heating of the classroom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: #2f2f2f; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cAs teaching unions such as the Irish National Teachers\u2019 Organisation have correctly pointed out, schools are reeling under cutbacks and this is forcing an even greater burden on hard pressed parents as they try to pay for \u00a0their children\u2019s education. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cMinister Ruair\u00ed Quinn and his colleagues in Government need to reverse the slash and burn policies that are preventing schools from functioning properly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools buckling under cuts to capitation grant Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the crisis facing schools resulting from Government cuts is starkly illustrated by reports this week that children starting the new term in a Cork primary school had been asked to supply their own toilet roll, soap, and hand towels . [&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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}