School board row could escalate

A CORK secondary school that does not have parent and teacher representation on its board of management could be challenged legally on the issue.

The last day of the ASTI’s annual conference heard that Ashton College was the only Protestant comprehensive school not to include such representation.

Jim King, Donegal, a member of the union’s CEC Advisory Committee, said one of the five Protestant comprehensive schools had still not provided teacher and parent representation on the board of management.