Irish Education Crisis – Time to Fightback!

Irish Education Crisis – Time to Fightback!

As with many public services education is often overlooked by mainstream politics and politicians – it barely surfaced in the recent general election campaign. Here Deirdre Cronin examines the class basis to the crisis in education and argues the US teachers’ struggles of the past decade need to be replicated here. With over a quarter of the population engaged in education, between primary, secondary and third level, and tens of thousands workin…