Cash-strapped schools may need funds from parents

PARENTS may have to pay more to cash-strapped schools because of budgetary cutbacks, the ASTI conference heard.

Delegates were told that schools relying heavily on voluntary contributions will be forced to ask parents for more.

Budget 2009 abolished a range of grants to second-level schools, including grants for Transition Year, physics and chemistry, Leaving Cert Applied and Leaving Cert Vocational.