user: Article: It wants Welsh medium education to be centralised at Builth Wells High School instead but the plan has been strongly opposed by parents worried that pupils face a 40-mile (64km) round trip.
The council said pupil numbers had decreased to such a low level that the Welsh medium stream was not viable.
A total of 19 children are currently educated in the Welsh medium stream.
That is down from 67 in 2010-11.
The cabinet voted 5-2 in favour of the recommendation.
But the decision has been met with strong opposition from Brecon High parents and supporters of Welsh medium education.
Sian Drinan, whose son Berwyn is a pupil at the school, said expecting children to travel 20 miles (32km) each way to access Welsh medium education was "unacceptable".
Lisa Jones, whose three children have gone through the Welsh stream, said it was a very sad day.
"Until very recently children have been getting eight GCSEs through the medium of Welsh and I know of five pupils who have gone to Oxford, including my daughter," she said.
Rhian Young added: "The number of children who are going to leave the Welsh language, it's such a great shame, when it was starting to be a big thing here in Brecon."
But Councillor Arwel Jones, cabinet member for education, said increasing the provision for the Welsh language at Builth Wells would attract more pupils.
"If the quality of education is there, pupils will travel," he said.
ANALYSIS from Colette Hume, BBC Wales education correspondent
This is a mirror image of what we have seen recently at Llangennech in Carmarthenshire, where there is a campaign centred around closing the English medium stream and making the school entirely taught through the medium of Welsh.
In both cases there are strong protest groups keen to make their voices heard.
In January, Carmarthenshire county council voted in favour of making Ysgol Llangennech Welsh medium from September, removing the English stream. A bitter debate took place at County Hall with 38 councillors voting in favour of the plan and 20 against.
Carmarthenshire council says it wants to extend Welsh medium provision in schools partly in response to census figures which show a fall in the number of Welsh speakers in the county.
Parents in Brecon had vowed to continue their fight for Welsh medium secondary education in Brecon even if the cabinet vote went against them.
They warn the future of Welsh in the town could be under threat if children there are not able to continue learning in Welsh at secondary level locally.
They say they have been fighting for two years and are prepared to take their battle for what they say is their right to the courts.
The parents have not ruled out standing in the forthcoming council elections on the single issue of the Welsh-medium steam issue.
This is a battle set to continue.
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Summarize: The Welsh medium stream at Brecon High School is to close, Powys council's cabinet has decided.


Problem: The blast hit a train at Taipei's Songshan station before midnight leaving some passengers badly burned.
Police told local media they found a broken tube with explosive material inside that looked like a firecracker.
Premier Lin Chuan told media it appeared "malicious" but police have not ruled out an accident.
Police bomb squad chief Lee Tzu-wen told local media that investigators found "a 15cm-long, broken metal tube stuffed with explosive material inside a black backpack" that they believe could have caused the blast.
"There was a blast and the carriage went dark. People were panicking and screaming," one passenger is quoted as telling a local news channel.
Other eyewitnesses cited in local media reported seeing a man carry a rectangular object onto the train carriage shortly before the explosion.
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A: An explosion ripped through a busy commuter train in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, late on Thursday injuring at least 24 people, police say.


Problem: One man has died and five others have become ill after contracting a rare strain called 'Legionella longbeachae', which appears to come from compost.
The unusual strain is well known in Australia and New Zealand, where bags of compost carry warning labels.
But these are the first cases linked to compost to be confirmed in the UK.
As many gardeners head out to their gardens and allotments to enjoy the warm weather, experts are warning them to wash their hands after using compost, particularly before eating or smoking.
"Gardening is a very healthy hobby but like anything in life there's a few risks," said Dr Martin Donaghy, medical director of Health Protection Scotland.
"Over the past five years we've had three confirmed cases of Legionella longbeachae, plus two 'probable' and one 'possible' so we do need to take steps to reduce the risk even further."
Doctors all over the UK are being urged to be alert for a link with gardening if they see patients with unusual pneumonia.
Symptoms of Legionella longbeachae include headaches, diarrhoea or a dry cough followed by pneumonia.
Most people recover after treatment with antibiotics and Dr Donaghy said other cases may have gone unreported.
"One of the features of this phenomenon is that we've only seen it in Scotland," he said.
"We're working closely with colleagues in England to find out the reasons for that.
"Are our services better at picking it up, or is it something to do with the nature of compost up here?
"We've got no evidence it's anything to do with the compost so we think it's more to do with being better at picking it up."
Like all forms of Legionnaire's disease, longbeachae is transmitted via very small droplets of water in the air.
All those who have contracted the illness so far were very keen gardeners, using different brands of compost.
Specialists are now investigating whether recent changes to compost formulas might be to blame as manufacturers move away from traditional peat-based growing media.
Health Protection Scotland is in discussions with the Scottish government on whether Australian-style warning labels should be recommended to manufacturers.
A spokesman for the Growing Media Association said: "Since 1990, of the 12 reported cases of Legionella potentially connected to the longbeachae microbe in Great Britain, only three are thought to be related to gardening.
"In the same period, the UK public has used well over a billion bags of compost.
"The exceptional rarity of these cases would seem to indicate that any associated risks are exceedingly minimal."
The spokesman added: "Nevertheless, the growing media industry is committed to acting in a responsible manner on this important issue and is therefore conducting a detailed global analysis of the situation.
"For the moment, appropriate precautionary/hygiene measures are unclear, an observation supported by Health Protection Scotland."
A spokesperson for the Association of Organics Recycling added that compost is routinely heated to at least 60C for 48 hours as part of the manufacturing process, which is considerably hotter than the preferred temperature for Legionella bacteria.
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assistant: Gardeners are being warned to wash their hands after using compost following a series of Legionella cases in Scotland over the past five years.