Luke 'Ming' Flanagan
Question:230. Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 11 March 2014, regarding decisions on the use of workbooks, in which he stated that the Education Act, 1998, places a responsibility on boards of management to manage the school on behalf of the patron of the school and for the benefit of the students and parents, and to provide or cause to be provided an appropriate education for each student at the school, boards of management, in exercising their function to ensure that an appropriate education is provided for students, have the authority to determine school policy on this matter, it seems clear, that he is saying that boards of management have the authority to determine school policy on this matter, however in the next sentence he states that, teachers under the guidance of the senior management of the school must make decisions on the textbooks or workbooks to be used in line with the school policy determined by the board, if he will explain, whether it is the board of management or the teachers who determine whether or not workbooks are used in a school in the event of a disagreement between the board of management and the teachers as to whether these workbooks should or should not be used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16659/14]
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