School funding can’t be topped up by parents
Tommy Walshe, president of the National Parents Council-Post Primary (NPC-PP), made his comments at the launch of a joint submission to Education Minister Ruairi Quinn by a group representing second level parents, teachers, principals and boards of management.
A further cut to the number of teachers that can be appointed has been flagged as a likely element of Mr Quinn’s 2012 budget to be unveiled next week, in addition to staffing cuts imposed two years ago, with the potential to save €80 million of the annual teachers’ pay bill of €3.85 billion.