BIG DEBATE: Should grants to fee paying schools be cut?

The figures show state-sponsored privilege in education must be ended, writes Gerard Craughwell

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland welcomes the publication by the Department of Education and Skills of the long-awaited report analysing the fee income of fee paying second-level schools.

The report completely vindicates the union’s long-held position that it is unacceptable that the State should sponsor privilege in the form of funding for the teacher allocation for these schools.