East Ayrshire teacher numbers are set remain the same after it was revealed the council would be hit with £4.5m in penalties if it went ahead with plans mooted in January.
The education service had been looking at cutting 21 FTE teaching posts, in line with the falling number of pupils and maintaining the pupil/teacher ratios.
But the Scottish Government, which has promised to increase teacher numbers, has stepped in, moving away from the previous formula to demand that councils maintain the same number of teachers they had in September 2022.
