More disadvantaged schools to receive support funding
They were among around 360 schools which appealed their exclusion from the list of schools selected in February to take part in the School Support Programme (SSP).
The 36 primary and four second level schools being notified of the good news this week bring to more than 870 the number benefiting under the SSP, part of Education Minister Mary Hanafin’s Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) action plan unveiled in May 2005.