Parents and students make up for school cutbacks [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 03 April 2010
PARENTS and students are being forced to pay for a significant chunk of education cutbacks through increased school donations and payments for regular school activities, a survey of second-level schools has found.
As well as the loss of teachers, some subjects and programmes being dropped and fewer staff to do administrative work, schools are reporting that they have had to increase voluntary contributions charged to parents.
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