{"id":31593,"date":"2023-03-22T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/22\/irish-parents-no-longer-have-to-pay-for-childrens-school-books\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:05:34","slug":"irish-parents-no-longer-have-to-pay-for-childrens-school-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=31593","title":{"rendered":"Irish parents no longer have to pay for children&#8217;s school books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Parents of primary pupils in the Republic of Ireland will no longer have to pay for school books after the government said it would cover the cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Primary schools are to receive \u20ac96 (\u00a384) for each pupil for textbooks and copybooks from September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The \u20ac50m (\u00a343.9m) scheme was announced as part of the Irish government&#8217;s 2023 budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Education Minister Norma Foley has now provided more details about it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Every primary school and special school in the country is included in the scheme, which will benefit more than 558,000 children and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Schools will also receive an administrative grant to support the roll-out and implementation of the programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The \u20ac96 cost for each pupil was calculated after an analysis of data from more than 100 primary schools that were involved in a pilot scheme for free books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c04v8nvkmkmo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Parents of primary pupils in the Republic of Ireland will no longer have to pay for school books after the government said it would cover the cost. Primary schools &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}