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Mon 04 Apr 2008'Educational apartheid' exposed in schools
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MANY SCHOOLS are using restrictive admissions policies to exclude students with special needs and the children of immigrants.
A Department of Education audit of more than 1,900 schools, seen by The Irish Times, shows that in one Dublin area, fewer than 1 per cent of students in one secondary school have special learning needs, compared with 17 per cent in neighbouring vocational schools.
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