Executive parties must explain integrated funding axe: SDLP
SDLP Opposition demands that Executive parties explain how and why capital funding for new integrated schools and shared education campuses was cut after being ring-fenced under Fresh Start. SDLP MLA Cara Hunter says the Assembly will seek to call the Education Minister to explain the decision.
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