Principals wait on ASTI decision

SECONDARY school principals are hoping the ASTI will take the incentive of a deal finalised with the other two teachers’ unions and return to supervision and substitution duties.

A deal has been brokered between the Department of Education and the other two teachers unions on making the work payments pensionable. It is though an ASTI meeting in Dublin on Saturday will call a national ballot on whether to resume the duties The governing bodies of the Teachers Union of Ireland and the Irish National Teachers Organisation are expected to approve the deal put forward by facilitator Tom Pomphrett on Tuesday.

The National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), whose annual conference opens in Killarney today, saybelieve this is a move in the right direction.