An Educate Together National School principal in Carrigaline, Co Cork, says hours are likely to be cut for her pupils under the new Special Education Teaching allocation model
Thousands more children will have access to the service under the new rules which will reduce the limit students have to live from school to qualify for a bus place
School transport overhaul will include reducing the distance threshold from 3.2km to 2km, and scrapping the stipulation that children must be attending the nearest school to qualify for the scheme
In more than 70% of the schools inspected, all young people from Ukraine in third year and sixth year intended to sit the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations