Wales' Education Minister has been asked to step in to prevent the reorganisation of schools around Llanfyllin by Welsh language pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith. They group says Powys Council would be breaking the Schools Organisation Code which gives a presumption against closing rural schools if it went ahead with the plans, with which the council has agreed to progress with a business case.
The move would see Ysgol Pennant primary school in Pen-Y-Bont Fawr closed, with the council planning a new Welsh medium primary school at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and an expectation that pupils from Ysgol Pennant would go there.
