Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Business of Joint Committee
Integrated Education: Discussion
Ms Roisin Marshall:
A question was asked about how the integration process works. We can certainly send more information about that. That relates to parental and community engagement, trying to educate people about integrated education and empowering parents to transform the school to an integrated one regardless of its current management type. An integrated school can be either grant-maintained, which means the board of governors is its managing authority, or a controlled integrated school, which means the education authority is the managing authority. The good news is that this transformation is open to every school apart from special schools and hospital schools so any school can switch to integrated status. Why would a school not transform if it has a mix of Protestants and Catholics?
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