Groups apply for school patronages [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 03 November 2011
THE Department of Education has received applications from eight groups to be patrons of 13 new primary schools due to open in the next two years.
Education Minister Ruairi Quinn announced in June that the new schools will open in major population growth areas in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Kildare.
His department invited interested bodies to apply for the patronages up to early last month, with a newly formed, independent New Schools Establishment Group to recommend a patron in each case to the minister.
There were just two applicants for almost half the planned schools, but there are four prospective patrons for three of them.
The multi-denominational schools group Educate Together has applied to become patron to all but one. The Vocational Education Committees (VECs) in counties Cork, Dublin and Kildare and in Galway city have applied to open community national schools in 10 areas.
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