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Zoned out
Issue No 76• A community newspaper for Newcastle’s suburbs • August 2020
Local families have been left puzzled, shocked and angry by an Education Department decision that has carved their streets off the intake area for the nearest and most easily accessible public school. By any reasonable measure residents of Ridgeway Road, Croudace Street, Floralia Close and Ardlessa Way in New Lambton Heights look at New Lambton Public (NLPS) as being their local school. Aware that a review was underway, concerned parents made submissions recently via the NLPS website during the brief community engagement period offered. They also signed petitions to express their concerns. They now believe that the decisionmakers have at best paid lip service to their concerns. They learnt in July, only through currently enrolled families, that their children will no longer be eligible to enrol at NLPS. Instead, the new zoning boundaries dictate that children residing in these streets will now attend Wallsend South Public School. (cont’d page 3)
Matt Fisher of Croudace Street, with Penny on shoulders and other concerned New Lambton Heights residents
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