Parents may not get to choose patron of ‘reconfigured’ Catholic schools
Educate Together fears being excluded from plan to create multi-denominational schools
‘We’re thriving’: How one Catholic primary school changed its patronage
Breaking the deadlock on creating multidenominational schools
New school to be established in Co Meath on foot of acute shortage of places
Ashbourne parents forced to travel to Louth or Dublin to find schools with spare capacity
Sacramental preparation does not belong during regular school day
Opinion: State-backed community national schools are moving in the right direction
Gaelscoileanna are not just a ‘middle-class’ option
Opinion: More parents need to be able to access education through the Irish language
State education body denies ‘cosy deal’ in school transfer plan
Education and Training Board says it will have impartial role in plan to transfer patronage from religious schools
Educate Together says patronage transfer plans ‘unfair’
Multidenominational education body claims deal benefits Community National Schools
Community national schools are a bad idea
New schools will segregate children on the basis of religion emphasising separateness and difference
Bruton plan backs Church to transfer primary patronage
Government plans to raise number of multi-denominational schools to 400 within 15 years
Patronage debate: Hopes for Community National School model
Church may transfer patronage of many schools to local education boards under initiative
Is this the answer to the school patronage debate?
With 96% of schools under religious control, community national schools say they offer a way around the ‘baptism barrier’
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