Short absences from school linked to lower Leaving Cert grades, study findsA chronic absence of 20 days or more is linked to a gap of over 80 Leaving Cert points.
Special needs assistants protest outside Leinster House demand ‘job security’Tánaiste Simon Harris said earlier in the day that the Government had got a review of how SNAs were allocated at schools ‘wrong’.
‘We got this wrong,’ Tánaiste says of government handling of SNA reviewSimon Harris said ‘when something goes wrong, you’ve got to put your hands up and you’ve got to fix it’.