Jonathan O'Brien
Question:206. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills in a case where a post-primary school is over quota, if the principal and Board of Management of that school have the discretion to decide the way learning support and resource teaching hours are allocated; his Department's circular/policy document that school boards of management must adhere to when allocating resource hours to mainstream teachers at post-primary level; the policy at post-primary level that informs principals and boards of management how to give hours allocated to pupils with special needs to mainstream teachers instead of resource teachers; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a qualified resource teacher can lose his or her job as a result of the hours he or she should be teaching being given to a mainstream teacher because the school is in an over-quota position. [33071/13]
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