Parents were set to launch an 11th-hour High Court battle today (July 4) to stop the shake-up of Oxford schools.
Campaigners fighting plans to scrap the city's middle school system vowed to take the matter to judicial review if today's D-day meeting was adjourned.
Members of the Schools Organisation Committee (SOC), which was due to meet this morning to vote on whether or not to get rid of the current three-tier system, are expected to delay the matter until September, for further reports to be compiled.
But an unnamed member of the Save Our Schools group will seek a judicial review if the matter is delayed or is not decided during the two-day meeting, and a London-based lawyer will be instructed to take up the case.
The group said regulations state that the SOC must make a decision within two months of the end of the objection period, which would be July 10.
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