Temporary classrooms could be provided at some secondary schools to help cope with York's pupil admissions crisis.

City of York Council education chiefs were authorised last night to investigate the possible provision of additional accommodation in the Acomb area to meet a bulge in pupil numbers, so that youngsters do not have to travel across the city to get to school.

And they will look at the possibility of providing transport for children from the Fishergate area who have been allocated a place at a school more than two miles away at Burnholme.

But irate Fishergate parents say they will press for an additional classroom at a local secondary school, arguing that simply laying on free transport would be unacceptable.

Howard Dickenson, chairman of the school governors at Fishergate School, said it would create a "lost generation" of children, going to school far away from their own homes and community, and even from their own brothers and sisters.

He said members of the new action group would be pressing for temporary classrooms to be set up either at Fulford school or Millthorpe school.

The Fishergate parents last night launched an 'action group' to campaign for the extra classroom after meeting education officials to discuss their children's plight.

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