This Is Staffordshire
09:20 - 22-July-2009
THE future of eight schools is due to be decided at a council meeting this afternoon.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council's cabinet will discuss whether to press ahead with plans to shut seven high schools and one special school, as part of its £250 million Building Schools for the Future programme.
It would pave the way for five new academies to be built to help transform young people's learning.
The schools affected are Blurton High, St Peter's High in Penkhull, Brownhills Maths and Computing College in Tunstall, Mitchell Business and Enterprise College in Bucknall, Berry Hill High, James Brindley Science College in Chell, and Edensor Technology College in Longton.
Heathfield School, in Chell Heath, is also facing closure as part of a merger with nearby Middlehurst School.
The cabinet meeting starts at 2pm at Stoke civic centre.