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Wednesday 17 October 2007

Other Schools Fight On

As reported by Zena Hawley in today's Derby Evening Telegraph.
PARENTS TO FIGHT SCHOOL CLOSURES
Furious parents have vowed to fight on after the county council decided to go ahead with plans to close their children's school.

Derbyshire councillors voted yesterday to publish formal notices which could close Highfield Primary School, in Long Eaton, next summer.

They also agreed to proceed with closure plans for Castle Gresley Infants School and Apperknowle Primary, near Dronfield.

The move is designed to eliminate some of the 8,000 surplus places in schools across the county.

But parent Karen Beck, who has been helping to co-ordinate a campaign to keep Highfield Primary open, said that everyone at the 114-pupil school felt very angry about the situation.

Together with a number of parents from Long Eaton, Castle Gresley and Apperknowle, she attended the council cabinet meeting at Matlock yesterday.

When the council first proposed closing Highfield Primary School, it mistakenly estimated that it had 39 per cent of surplus space.

But it had taken into account two disused classrooms and, without them, surplus places were down to 24 per cent - just under the figure that triggers a review of surplus places in a school.

Mrs Beck said: "We feel that everything we have put forward has been turned around to suit the council's aim to close the school.

"And we are unhappy over the way the council keeps putting different pupil numbers forward to justify its stance."

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Full Story on the Derby Evening Telegraph web site.


So, it's not just with Combs School that DCC has been accused of using inaccurate information. Are they incapable of using information that is correct, or just unwilling because they wouldn't win their argument if they did?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

None of DCC's current penny-pinching plan is consistent with DCC's plans to provide funding towards a ~£24.5M investment including a sports academy in Shirebrook / Stubbin Wood.

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/consultation/consultation_search_index/building_brighter_futures_-_giving_shirebrook_and_stubbin_wood_pupils_the_best_education.asp

That's not to say Shirebrook should have investment ...... but at the cost of an outstanding infant school and valuable village hall ?? Where's the 'equity' in that ???

MG said...

Here's a clickable version of the link that HB left:

Shirebrook & Stubbin Wood