SNA cuts won’t be known until March [IrishExaminer.com]
- Published: 02 February 2010
THE number of special needs assistants (SNAs) being cut from schools will not be made known until a review is completed next month, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has insisted.
Although he rejects the loss of 1,200 jobs projected by the Irish Examiner, based on the outcome of a review at almost a quarter of the country’s 4,000 schools last summer, the minister said it would be wrong to disclose the number of SNA positions already axed.
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