Taoiseach defends education cuts [IrishTimes]
- Published: 15 December 2011
SUPPORTS FOR disadvantaged schools are still in place, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted, while conceding 428 teaching posts will be lost over three years.
Mr Kenny was responding in the Dáil to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, who said school principals believed the cuts would “devastate disadvantaged schools”.
Mr Martin said a letter by Cork principals highlighted the improvements in schools involved in the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (Deis) programme, where pupils had “flourished emotionally and developmentally”.
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