Independent councillor Laura Murtagh hopes members will support her bid to bring the matter to the education executive
A councillor with concerns about proposals that would shorten the school week for Falkirk pupils has won enough support to hold a special meeting on the subject.
This would reduce the school week for pupils from 25 hours per week to 22.5 hours per week in primaries and from 26.6 hours per week to 24.75 in secondaries. In her motion - which will be the only item of business - she says that the proposals should be outlined in full in a paper to be brought to the next meeting of ECYP Executive, and that no public consultation should proceed until the outcome of that meeting is known.
The SNP administration has 11 members of the 30 councillors in Falkirk, so without their support there is no guarantee that the motion will be heard.
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