PARENTS of children at a special school in Atherton facing closure in an education shake-up have vowed to fight to the bitter end to save it.
Staff and angry parents at Two Porches, Gloucester Street, Atherton, which was served with a statutory notice to close in January, have met to form a battle plan.
They have a month to state their case before the decision to close the school in August 2006 is approved.
Diana Foulkes, spokesman for the Parents Against Closure group, whose 16-year-old son Adam has been at the school for 11 years, said: "If needs be, we'll be there to defy the bulldozers."
Two Porches, which teaches children with severe and multiple learning difficulties, faces shutdown under Local Education Authority plans to include special needs children in mainstream schools.
Education director Ged Rowney said: "No child being educated in a special school will be moved to a mainstream school unless child and parent wish it."
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