FG says cuts bad for integration [IrishTimes.com]
- Published: 02 September 2009
A GOVERNMENT decision to cap the number of language support teachers in schools will foster resentment against immigrants, Fine Gael spokesman on immigration and integration Denis Naughten has said.
Mr Naughten claimed the cuts to language support, coinciding with an increase in class sizes and cuts to special needs support, had "added to the situation that sees pupils competing for teacher attention and forces teachers to allocate inordinate amounts of time to some students".
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