66% of new primary schools to be multidenominational
Education Minister Mary Hanafin yesterday gave recognition to 18 new mainstream primary schools for funding and eligibility for buildings from her department. Most of them are in urban areas where local schools have had trouble coping with demand for places, particularly from children of migrant families, in recent years.
The multidenominational organisation Educate Together will act as patron to 12 of the schools and four special schools have been approved. Only three new schools next September will be under the patronage of the local Catholic bishop, one each in Dublin, Cork and a Gaelscoil in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan.
