Class Size

Conference:

calls on all political parties and candidates to commit to proper funding of primary education in the term of the next government in order to reduce class size, support schools of all sizes, tackle the effects of disadvantage through education and improve school funding in areas of capitation and resourcing; and demands that the funding of primary education be increased, in line with international standards in comparative countries in the EU and OECD; that central government funds the costs of water and waste charges to schools; the appointment of secretarial and caretaking to all schools, paid directly by the DES and on a salary scale commensurate with civil service grades; . the provision of adequate funding to resource all aspects of the primary school curriculum including the provision of CPD; the payment of annual ICT grants to all schools in order to protect the investment made by the DES in schools technological infrastructures. Adopted

Irish National Teachers' Organisation