Parents demand end to teacher action

THE head of the group representing second-level parents has urged teacher unions to end industrial action which is deepening a management crisis in schools.

For two months, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) and Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) have banned members in management roles in second-level schools from switching roles to take on priority duties previously done by retired colleagues.

The Department of Education has stopped primary and second level schools filling vacancies in assistant principal and special duties posts as part of a wider public service promotions ban in place since March last year.