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Educate Together's Annual General Meeting 2003
- 15th MAY 2003
Representatives of all Educate Together Schools
will gather this Saturday in the City of the Tribes to review
progress and develop policy.
Clearly the pace of diversity in Irish society is
resulting in an escalating demand for the provision of schools
operating with the Educate Together ethos.
- It has been a momentous year for the sector:
- Becoming the fastest growing sector of primary
education
- Implementation of an exciting development program
- Creating a professional national office with
five full time and one part time staff members
- opening of seven new Educate Together schools
The AGM is being held in Co. Galway at the school
in which Minister Michael Martin in 1999 made the historic promise
that the state would provide sites for Educate Together schools.
Despite the gloom on the capital programme, Educate Togtether‚s
progress is consistent. Educate Together now have schools in each
city in the 26 counties and are advancing to a stage where we
will have schools in every county. Two Educate Together schools
are moving into new state-of-the-art buildings. This is down to
the sheer persistence of school communities.
An interesting part of the precedings will be the
admission of seven new schools and the extraordinary human stories
that will be told of the experiences of voluntary groups overcoming
all kinds of obstacles to build schools.
Policies to be highlighted at the AGM BY Paul Rowe
CEO for Educate Together are;
- The State is failing to provide for human rights
of citizens by continuing to reinforce the overwhelming monopoly
of denominational education in Ireland.
- The total inadequacy of the State mechanism for
providing new schools.
- The necessity for a fresh approach to the funding
of schools.
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