State to regulate school enrolment [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 26 July 2011
THE question of how schools should decide which children to enrol is to be set down by state regulations.
They are likely to include stipulations that the attendance of a parent or sibling should not be used to determine a child’s eligibility for a place in a school.
The Department of Education said it noted yesterday’s ruling at Clonmel Circuit Court, in which a secondary school’s decision not to enrol a Traveller boy was upheld after its appeal against an earlier Equality Tribunal decision.
He was one of a number of pupils whose application was unsuccessful because he did not meet one of the criteria that gave preference to boys whose father or older brother had already attended the school.
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