Special needs teachers to avoid staff cuts [Independent.ie]
- Published: 04 September 2009
SPECIAL needs teachers may be spared the axe in the next round of staff cuts in the public service, the Irish Independent has learned.
Instead it is likely to fall on mainstream teachers, who could face larger classes next year.
A review is nearing completion and is believed to recommend that no change be made in the existing model of allocation of teachers, which is on the basis of the number of pupils in the school, with disadvantaged and boys' schools getting a more favourable ratio.
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