INTO holds crunch meeting on inspection reports

THE direction of the primary teachers’ dispute over Department of Education plans to publish school inspection reports will be decided after a crucial meeting on the matter today.

About 600 Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) members will be updated on progress in the situation at a consultative conference in Dublin. The union’s annual congress delegates ordered the central executive committee in April to direct its 26,700 members not to co-operate with whole school evaluations (WSEs) by department inspectors. That directive has not yet been issued.

The INTO’s main concern is about the plan to put WSE reports on the Department of Education website, as staff in small schools may be identifiable.