Hundreds of families across Cheshire East gathered in Nantwich today to protest at school cuts under the Government’s planned National Funding Formula.
Teachers and parents in Nantwich and Crewe fear the new NFF will see Cheshire East worse off, facing a 4.5% cut in budgets over the next two years.
Council bosses will review plans to scrap school transport and force some Nantwich pupils to walk to school.
Cheshire East had passed a motion to axe free school buses on five routes, including Willaston to Malbank and Brine Leas schools in Nantwich.
Parents at a Nantwich primary school which was placed in special measures, are being given a chance to rename it.
A letter was issued to all parents of pupils at Wyche Primary School, on Manor Road, outlining how the school will change its image.
A ten-year-old girl from Nantwich is going back to the future as Latin, the language of the Romans and of the Vatican, makes a comeback. Lucy Allinson is among primary school children lapping up the subject now back on the curriculum at Howell’s School, in Denbigh.
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