Call for fewer church schools [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 11 April 2010
The Labour party is expected to propose that the number of primary schools managed by the Catholic church be halved. Its national conference, to be held next weekend in Galway, will vote on a “transition” from church to democratic and community control of schools.
Ruairi Quinn, the party’s education spokesman, has called for a phased withdrawal of the churches from primary-school management and a shift towards lay boards.
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