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Clare School campaign hits national pressThe campaign led by C.L.A.R.E to retain a secondary school in Sudbury was reported in the Sunday Express on Sunday 25 January The report ran: Row over closure plan Parents are fighting to save their successful village school after council officials said pupils could be bussed 20 miles a day to another with an appalling academic record. They have even offered to run Sudbury Middle School, in Suffolk, themselves - a right announced by Tony Blair three years ago. The middle school teaches children between the ages of nine and 13 before they move on to secondary schools to sit their GCSEs. But Suffolk County Council is reverting to a three-tier system with no middle school. Parents would be able to choose between Sudbury Upper School or Castlemanor Business and Enterprise College in Haverhill where last year just 23 per cent of pupils managed five GCSEs at A-C grade. Diana Sharpe, whose son Luke is due to start at the under threat school in September, said: "Children tracked from Sudbury Middle School do way better than the national average at GCSE with 87.5 per cent gaining the five A-C grades. How dare they try to send our children to a school which does so badly." Further national press coverage is planned by the C.L.A.R.E Group Date : 26-01-2009 |