Call for school library funds to be restored [IrishTimes]
- Published: 16 August 2011
THE GOVERNMENT must restore the school library service for its new literacy strategy to work, Ireland’s children’s laureate said yesterday.
Funding for classroom libraries “runs completely counter to the Government strategy on literacy” and “disproportionately affects the children who are most excluded”, Dr Siobhán Parkinson said.
She called on the Government to restore the link between public libraries and primary schools. The last government withdrew the €2 million in funding for the schools library service and claimed it was diverted into school capitation grants.
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