26% of funding for schools raised in local community [IrishTimes]
- Published: 30 April 2010
SCHOOLS SHORTFALL: MORE THAN 25 per cent of funding for schools has to be raised locally by parents and communities, a senior school leader said yesterday.
Noel Merrick, president of the group which represents over 400 school managers, said many schools would have closed long ago but for the assistance of local communities.
There is, he said, no other State funded system in the developed world where non-fee paying schools have to struggle with all types of fundraising just to pay day-to-day bills.
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