Disadvantaged schools set to lose 400 teachers [news.eircom.net]
- Published: 13 December 2011
In a range of measures that avoided cuts to class sizes across all the country's 3,300 primary schools, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn is axing almost 430 teaching posts schools were allowed keep from previous schemes after a unified programme to tackle disadvantage started in 2005.
These so-called legacy posts are in 270 primary schools and include more than 40 support teachers who gave counselling and dealt with extreme behaviour.
However, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) said these and other measures buried in the detail of the budget will take more posts out of primary classes for children who need most help. The union claimed that many of the jobs being lost would be re-allocated to schools in better-off areas.
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