The NASUWT, the largest union in Northern Ireland, is warning about numerous challenges ahead for teachers and the education service.
Savings of almost £200 million must be made across the system in 2015/16. There have already been repeated blows to secondary schools.
Classroom jobs are under threat while reading schemes are being cut and a multi-million pound drive to improve the literacy and numeracy skills of “poor” post-primary pupils has been culled.
Justin McCamphill, NASUWT national official, says the academic year is starting, regrettably, with the recent successes of the Northern Ireland education system under threat. Children, young people and teachers deserve better, he added.
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