# Department of Education
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Letters
Seven sex abuse victims dropped cases against the State after it sent them letters
23 Sep 2016
20.6k
53
national school abuse
The State sent 'intimidating' legal letters to abuse survivors about their legal actions
22 Jul 2016
21.5k
59
Education
'He's going to struggle': Teenager with learning disability denied Leaving Cert support
9 Jun 2016
29.1k
57
Courts
Student with dyslexia brings fresh High Court appeal to secure help for Leaving Cert exams
20 May 2016
14.3k
17
Opting out
'Like most of my friends, I baptised my children so they could go to school': The anger of Ireland's non-religious parents
16 May 2016
59.6k
475
Courts
Dyslexic student launches High Court action after being denied exam support
10 May 2016
21.3k
Rule 68
Religious discrimination in schools to be addressed 'before the next school year'
9 Dec 2015
22.7k
211
Voices
Schools getting zero direction on how to teach kids through technology
Fergal McCarthy
12 Nov 2015
289
36
educational needs
Mother starts second week chaining herself to the front of the Department of Education
19 Oct 2015
15.6k
45
chained
Mother chains herself to government gates to protest son's educational treatment
16 Oct 2015
20.1k
59
behavioural difficulties
Child (6) deemed by school to be “an unacceptable risk” to other students will be let reapply
10 Sep 2015
25.3k
CONFIRMED
Explainer: The Leaving Cert's getting a massive overhaul. Here's how it'll work.
3 Sep 2015
35.9k
46
Mayo
'Abandoned, remote and neglected': This is the school Educate Together don't want to use
27 Aug 2015
32.0k
96
a way of life gone
'We'll depopulate - and very, very quickly the island will be gone'
18 Jul 2015
23.4k
29
chaotic delays
Taxpayers could end up footing €4.1m bill for student grant overpayment
11 Jun 2015
12.4k
27
inclusion
Catholic Church tells Irish schools how they should treat non-Catholics
12 Mar 2015
21.5k
120
Background Checks
Garda vetting of 36,000 teachers will wait until after new laws are brought in
21 Jan 2015
9.5k
9
pps numbers
Department's plan to collect data on every child a 'worrying overreach of the State'
7 Jan 2015
16.5k
121
Education
Student teachers say Gaeltacht placement is 'unregulated waste of money'
17 Sep 2014
29.2k
24
Ruling
Court tells department to give two children with Down syndrome maximum resource teaching hours
26 Jun 2014
15.2k
19
Dáil claims
Whistleblower says builders paid by State are defrauding the welfare system
26 Jun 2014
9.6k
15
We Care Do You
Schools are campaigning against new plans for reviews of special needs assistants
1 Jun 2014
9.5k
41
grand designs
Quinn gives €35 million to schools so they can have nicer toilets and roofs
2 May 2014
11.4k
40
Under fire
Ruairí Quinn: Being booed and heckled by teachers 'certainly wasn't enjoyable'
23 Apr 2014
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128
Rathfarnham
Plan to convert Loreto Abbey back into school "incredibly ambitious" say property managers
8 Mar 2014
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cross-party support
No contest likely on Down Syndrome bill to provide resource teaching
7 Feb 2014
6.4k
11
junior cert reform
New sex education course on the way for reformed junior cycle
21 Jan 2014
11.4k
17
withdrawal room
Revealed: Autistic children locked in unsupervised ‘isolation rooms’ for hours
13 Jan 2014
69.0k
305
Book scheme
Quinn admits schools who operate book rental schemes won't benefit from new funding
9 Jan 2014
10.3k
29