National press coverage for C.L.A.R.E!

An article in the Telegraph newspaper has reported that the C.L.A.R.E campaign to set up a rural state school has been been thwarted by ministers and council officials.

It goes on to say that despite the Government's much trumpeted "parent power" agenda, plans put forward by families in Clare, Suffolk, to set up their own secondary school have been thrown out.

The group began a campaign in 2005, when Suffolk County Council announced it wanted to close the market town's middle school, as part of a reorganisation. The decision would mean sending children by bus to two senior schools outside the town, one with low results.

Parents launched a campaign to establish the Stour Valley Community College and won support for the project from local residents, MPs and borough councils....

Read the full story at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/3868356/Parents-school-plan-rejected.html