Investing in schools, cutting class sizes and limiting costs to parents
Education is a great liberating force in society. Investment in and reform of education will help us build a more equal Ireland. Making every school fit for the digital age is our priority.
Labour in Government has provided €2.2 billion for new school buildings and delivered the first improvements to literacy and numeracy results in a generation.
Our plan for the next five years:
- Deliver the smallest class sizes in the history of the State
- Radically reduce costs to parents
- End the use of prefabs in our schools
- Invest €210 million in broadband and technology for schools
- Aim to have Ireland in the top countries for reading, science and maths by 2020
- Provide new courses in the Leaving Certificate, such as coding, P.E. and politics
- Ensure children spend more time each week on science and P.E.
- Make 21st century skills and subjects part of every child’s education
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