Written answers

Tuesday, 28 March 2006

Department of Education and Science

Disadvantaged Status

11:00 pm

Photo of Brian O'SheaBrian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 805 of 21 March 2006, the grounds on which primary schools that were designated as disadvantaged in the early 1990's were excluded from the designation as disadvantaged for purposes of circular SPED 02/05; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11753/06]

Photo of Mary HanafinMary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that a number of different schemes were providing support to schools designated as disadvantaged. These included the giving children an even break scheme, the disadvantaged area scheme, breaking the cycle programme, early start programme, home school community liaison scheme and support teacher project.

In the context of the general allocation model, my Department considered that the most disadvantaged schools were those eligible for additional staffing in the urban dimension of the giving children an even break scheme and the preferential 80:1 PTR was applied to those schools.

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