Budget 2020 – IPPN’s View
- Published: 10 October 2019
There is no clearer way to say it, Budget 2020 has failed our teaching principals. The cost of the demands made by IPPN to make the teaching principal’s role more sustainable is miniscule - less than €8m, a paltry sum representing 0.073% of an €11bn education budget. We are bitterly disappointed that the Ministers for Education and Rural & Community Development could not back up their verbal support for the leaders of small schools, by providing one leadership and management day per week for teaching principals to alleviate their workload.
Minister McHugh’s expressed aim to ‘find every possible way of helping those schools to move from surviving to thriving’ now sounds very hollow. The Department’s progressive circulars on leadership and management simply cannot be fulfilled without adequate time and capacity to lead and manage our schools.
