EDUCATION MINISTER URGED NOT TO CUT SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS IN GALWAY

Date Published: 06-May-2009

There's a call on the Education Minister to reconsider the decision to cut resource and special needs teachers in Galway national schools.City Councillor Declan McDonnell is urging Minister Batt O'Keeffe to keep special education and resource teachers or national schools will be badly affected.Cllr. McDonnell says the cuts will particularly affect national schools in Mervue, Tirellan and Renmore where there are high numbers of foreign national pupils.