This legislation gave those schools additional autonomies around collective bargaining, personnel assignment and scheduling, the length of the school day, funding, and other organizational and structural issues, and also created the possibility of state receivership if the schools did not dramatically improve their performance. (aypf.org)
According to Blunkett, the original aim of academies was to improve underperforming by providing additional autonomy to school leaders to draw on best practice from outside. (educationbusinessuk.net)
This creates opportunities for states to offer additional autonomies so as to attract high - performing networks that might not otherwise consider putting down stakes in particular districts. (educationnext.org)