Parents force re-think on schools

Parent power has forced education bosses to re-think their plans to scrap three Catholic secondary schools in the district. Hundreds of parents and guardians voiced their opposition to the plans after they were sent a document outlining the scheme to build just one super-school. In a devastating blow to Diocese chiefs only 30 people were in favour of the scheme, with nearly 850 against or undecided. Now education bosses are being told to go back to the drawing board in their efforts to re-structure Catholic education in the city. They had wanted to close down St Joseph's Catholic College in Manningham, St Bede's Grammar School in Heaton and Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College in Tong, and replace them with a single super-school by 2008.

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