The Lazio Regional Administrative Court (TAR) issued four new rulings over the weekend, confirming its decision to strike down the “Regional Plan for the Sizing of Educational Institutions for the 2025/26 School Year.” The plan was originally approved by the Lazio regional government last December.
The latest rulings granted the appeals filed by the Province of Viterbo (the first), the Municipality of Grotte di Castro (the second), the Municipalities of Petrella Salto and Fiamignano (the third), and by parents of students from other affected schools in Terracina.
The court’s rationale for accepting the appeals was consistent across all cases. The TAR found that the measures concerning the suppression and merger of the reference schools “provide no reasoning for the reasons behind the suppression.” Furthermore, the ruling stated that “having radically diverged from the proposal of the regional permanent conference on education… the Regional Government unquestionably should have made clear the reasons for which it deemed it necessary to deviate from it by modifying the school network sizing plan.”