Ruairi Quinn plans forum on transferring schools out of Catholic patronage [thejournal.ie]
- Published: 11 March 2011
THE NEW MINISTER for Education, Ruairi Quinn, has said that he wants to identify ways in which to transfer schools out of Catholic patronage.
At an address to the annual conference of the Catholic Primary School Management Association (CPSMA), Quinn said that he wanted to transfer the schools out of Catholic patronage in order to “create greater diversity and choice.”
The establishment of a ‘Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector’ was set out as part of the coalition’s programme for government.
Quinn said he would be establishing a forum to identify ways in which to do this and said it would focus not on whether this was a good idea but how to make it happen.
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