Plea to Protestant fee-pay schools [Independent.ie]
- Published: 04 January 2012
A Church of Ireland archbishop has called on fee-charging Protestant schools to open their books to state officials.
Dr Michael Jackson encouraged schools under Church of Ireland management to take part in a Department of Education study on spending.
Dr Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin, welcomed the audit by the Republic's Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.
"This initiative provides an opportunity for all such schools to show the ways in which fee income is being used to supplement the resources of individual schools," he said.
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