Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 56: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next assessment of DEIS schools will be implemented; and the criteria to be applied when examining the effectiveness of DEIS schools. [30978/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Ongoing evaluation of the operation of the DEIS programme is being undertaken both by the Education Research Centre (ERC) and by the Inspectorate of my Department. Three reports arising out of this work were published earlier this year. These were 'A Report on the First Phase of the Evaluation of DEIS', available on www.erc.ie, which concentrates on Literacy and Numeracy achievements in DEIS Urban Primary schools and two reports on the effectiveness of DEIS planning in primary and post-primary schools prepared by the Inspectorate of my Department entitled 'An Evaluation of Planning Processes in DEIS Primary Schools' and 'An Evaluation of Planning Processes in DEIS Post-Primary Schools' - both available on www.education.ie.

I am glad to say that these evaluations demonstrated positive outcomes, for both schools and individual children, from the DEIS Programme.

Further evaluations of the DEIS Programme will be completed over the course of 2012/13 and I will consider the outcome of these and any further evaluation reports in the context of the future of DEIS.