Staffordshire County Council says the land sold at Woodhouse Middle School was on a slope, was not used for school sport and that the school still has big playing fields.

BBC: School playing fields: 31 sales approved

This Northwest Cluster event was sponsored by Great Seneca Creek Elementary School PTA, Matsunaga Elementary School PTA, Kingsview Middle School PTA and Roberto Clemente Middle School PTA. The PTAs in the Northwest Cluster of Montgomery County Public Schools are also looking to pilot a curriculum on bullying prevention through the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

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Another of the cases involves Ingleton Middle School and North Yorkshire County Council says that school has closed.

BBC: School playing fields: 31 sales approved

Winchester has a large liberal-minded public-sector middle-class: Hampshire County Council, the Winchester School of Art, King Alfred's College, and the genteel types round its ancient cathedral and public school.

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Tracy Heffelfinger, who teaches at Little Mill Middle School in Forsyth County, Georgia, said the experience gave her a great appreciation for what astronauts have to do in space.

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In its School Organisation Review, Suffolk County Council is replacing the three-tier system of primary, middle and secondary schools with the two-tier system which cuts out the 40 middle schools.

BBC: Suffolk's middle schools closure programme starts