'No surprise at plan to axe school'.PARENTS and governors of a school facing the axe say they are not surprised that education chiefs in Cardiff have recommended closure to make way for the expansion of a Welsh primary. The recommendation to close Lansdowne Primary in Canton will be considered by the council's ruling executive today. It is likely that they will rubber stamp the decision to close the school and hand the building over to Ysgol Treganna, which is severely overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. in its current Radnor Road site, from 2011. The majority of pupils from Lansdowne would then move into the Radnor Primary school. If the decision is approved a public consultation will be launched. And if formal objections are received during this period the final decision on whether the school closes will have to be made by the Education Minister Jane Hutt. The Save Lansdowne Primary Action Committee say they have never had a fair hearing from the council since the proposal was first published and welcome the chance to put their case to the Minister. The future of Lansdowne Primary is just one of five school reorganisation Noun 1. reorganisation - the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet proposals being considered at the meeting at County Hall in Cardiff Bay Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the regeneration area created by the Cardiff Barrage which impounded two rivers (Taff and Ely) to form a new 500 acre freshwater lake around the former dockland area south of the city centre of Cardiff in south Wales. .. |
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