# Special Education
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Last month
March 2024
complex needs
Hundreds of primary principals decry changes to special education criteria in new petition
4 Mar
14.8k
11
This year
2024
SET hours in schools
'Exhausted with the fight': Outrage as Minister defends changes to special education criteria
14 Feb
16.4k
15
Last year
2023
budget 2024
Fears extra 1,200 SNA posts from next September 'doesn't go far enough'
11 Oct 2023
10.4k
20
recruitment crisis
Dublin primary schools finding it incredibly difficult to recruit teachers for September
9 Aug 2023
23.8k
49
Education
No 'specific number' on how many children can participate in Summer Programme
Updated
9 Feb 2023
12.6k
7
All time
Special Education
Minister Madigan announces 17% increase in special class places for Dublin and Cork
24 Aug 2022
10.2k
11
Education
Government approves legislation to compel schools to provide special education classes more quickly
28 Jun 2022
14.9k
14
Education
'Ten steps backwards': Govt proposal to open 'special educational needs centres' met with criticism
26 May 2022
12.9k
3
Special Education
'It's a mixed day for families': Special-education classes in mainstream schools return from today
22 Feb 2021
21.4k
21
special schools
Children with special education needs return to 124 special schools today
11 Feb 2021
10.8k
19
school closures
Education Minister: Unions 'refused to accept public health advice' over special schools return
Updated
21 Jan 2021
68.9k
156
parents
'Our kids are suffering': Some parents 'devastated' over failure to re-open special education as planned
21 Jan 2021
15.2k
94
Minister for Education
Norma Foley: It's a matter of deep regret that unions won't recognise special education as essential
20 Jan 2021
65.4k
343
Department of Education
Doubt over Thursday re-opening for special education classes amid 'make or break' talks
19 Jan 2021
41.2k
147
Special Education
At-risk SNAs and childcare among final obstacles in resuming special-education classes
Updated
16 Jan 2021
44.6k
95
jury still out
The government has just made a rake of promises about special needs education
18 Jan 2017
10.9k
20
Ruling
Court tells department to give two children with Down syndrome maximum resource teaching hours
26 Jun 2014
15.2k
19
The Educators
'I don't have to fight for more money from the government' - Education Minister
18 Jun 2014
4.8k
19
Changes
Radical shake-up on the cards for country's 10,000 special education teachers
18 Jun 2014
8.8k
17
Voices
Column: Austerity isn't working – so what alternatives exist for October's Budget?
Dr Rory Hearne
12 Jul 2013
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