9:00am Thursday 1st October 2009
A COLCHESTER councillor has urged education secretary Ed Balls to keep secondary education on offer in the south of Colchester.
Berechurch councillor Dave Harris joined colleague Julie Young to meet the Secretary of State for children, schools and families at the Labour Party Conference, in Brighton.
Mr Harris asked Mr Balls if there were ways of keeping secondary education in the south of Colchester when Thomas Lord Audley and Alderman Blaxill schools close in 2015.
He said: “He was adamant he wanted to invest in schools and he listened to me and my appeal to have TLA and Alderman Blaxill left with some sort of secondary education on these sites.
“He has asked me to send more information, which I’m doing.”
Essex County Council is to close the two schools, replace Sir Charles Lucas Arts College with an academy and expand four other schools in the borough.
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