Motion or amendment: Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement
Motion or amendment by Mr Pat Sheehan on .
- MLA
- Mr Pat Sheehan
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 15 October 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement
- Assembly identifier
- Document 414386
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Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement
That this Assembly recognises that socio-economic background is the biggest predictor of educational underachievement; acknowledges that a range of targeted interventions across government are required to tackle the issue and give children and young people the opportunity to reach their potential; welcomes the allocation of over £20 million from the Shared Island fund to help tackle educational underachievement; regrets that the resulting RAISE programme’s eligibility formula excludes many schools in some of the most deprived working class communities; further regrets that, by design, this programme will not deliver based on objective need; and calls on the Minister of Education to replace the RAISE programme with a new programme which will target support to the schools and children that, based on objective evidence, need it most.
133 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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- 5 November 2024: Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement – The Motion, As Amended, Was Carried
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