Quinn: High-income families putting doctors under pressure over special needs care

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has been forced into a second embarrassing U-turn and reversed a 10% cut in resource teaching hours to schoolchildren with special needs.

Quinn: High-income families putting doctors under pressure over special needs care

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has been forced into a second embarrassing U-turn and reversed a 10% cut in resource teaching hours to schoolchildren with special needs.

The minister has ordered a review to examine why there was an unprecedented 12% rise in applications for resource teacher support this year, when the pupil population only rose by 1.3%.

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