The Educational Institute is urging its members to call for a halt to the roll-out of 623 new special education jobs which it says are flawed and unworkable.
The union is asking primary and intermediate school principals to decide by the end of this week if they want to pause the introduction of the learning support coordinators and hold an urgent summit with ministers.
It says if schools continue with the scheme, they could be embedding a system of inequitable support for disabled children. RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen has the story.
