Call for schools using ‘educational apartheid’ to be denied funding

SECONDARY schools operating enrolment policies which exclude Travellers, non-English speaking and special needs students should not be receipt of Government funding.

The TUI, which represents 14,000 teachers and lecturers, urged the Department of Education to remove state funding for second-level schools engaged in “educational apartheid”, and put the money to roll back “brutal” education cuts.

John MacGabhann, assistant general secretary of the TUI, said it is “shameful” and “irresponsible” of the department not to acknowledge that these exclusionary enrolment policies are being operated.