QUOTE (Exhausted @ Dec 12 2010, 07:58 PM)
It wasn't ill founded and it wasn't a rumour. It was an active discussion by the worthies of WBC. I'm not sure why it wasn't progressed but it is now , or appears to be, on the back burner.
Quite right. Here's what happened...Ed Balls decided that new schools would raise educational achievement, and announced billions for a massive spending programme.
DCFS asked WBC to nominate 2 primaries and 1 secondary for the programme. WBC chose St Barts, Winchcombe and Speenhamland (the last 2 without even asking the Cllr in charge of education).
The money was approved and put in the 2009-10 WBC budget (£5.5m for both Speenhamland/Winchcombe and £34m for Barts).
New govt has honoured Winchcombe and Barts funding, but took the cash back for Speenhamland upon finding that nothing had been done.
So hardly a rumour - just another load of WBC-created uncertainty!