‘Unparalleled’ teacher supply crisis leads to 2,000 vacancies in schools, INTO saysNo megaphones or slow handclaps: why Norma Foley can expect easier ride at this year’s teachers’ conferences
“We expect that when we submit our claims under local bargaining this summer that your Department will support our strategy, and that from September next year the beginning of the end of the sorry austerity chapter can finally become a reality,” he said. Ms Foley acknowledged that there is an increasing demand for special education and special school places.
“You slammed the brakes on class size reductions missed an unprecedented opportunity to bring an end to Ireland’s shameful largest class sizes in the euro zone,” Mr Boyle said to Ms Foley, calling on her to reduce class sizes by two pupils in next October’s budget. She said the pay agreement, backed by all teacher unions and now ratified by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, will increase the starting pay for a teacher to around €46,000 and at the top point to around €85,000.
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