Sentences with phrase «school academy sponsors»

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Edmiston is the sponsor of three secondary schools within the English academy programme, and is chair of governors for all three academies.

With high school basketball becoming so popular with shoe sponsors like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Under Armour, etc, I won't be surprised if Van Komen goes to a prolific prep academy next year for his senior year.

Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.

In 2011 it decided to sponsor a failing Church of England primary school, now called Tudor Grange Primary Academy St James, after being approached by the Diocese of Birmingham.

An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.

Health, The LGBTQ Community Center, National Association for Mental Health Harlem Chapter, Fierce, Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters School, NYC Council Member Ritchie Torres, and sponsors Essentials 608 Restaurant and Lounge, Metro Click Kiosks, and Spotco Theatrical Design and Advertisement.

According to NFER «the differences in school GCSE performance between sponsored academies that have been open for between two and four years and a group of similar maintained schools were generally small and mostly not statistically significant.»

However, the NASUWT suggested that the government's proposal for new academy schools to become exempt charities was «a naked attempt to provide a further tax loophole for private sponsors.»

In England, there are several types of academies, including sponsored and converter academies and free schools.

The academies programme started under Labour, targeting low - performing schools that were taken over by a sponsor.

Schools that are already academies will not be exempt from government intervention, as those deemed as failing or coasting could face being forcibly transferred to new sponsors.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

This is the first academy chain to give up all of its schools, of which five of the 12 sponsored by the group are rated as «inadequate».

The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.

The Academy Partnership Award, sponsored by Ward ‑ Hendry, is presented to an established specialist academy that can demonstrate benefits to the community through a partnership with an existing establishment, be it another school university or private sector organiAcademy Partnership Award, sponsored by Ward ‑ Hendry, is presented to an established specialist academy that can demonstrate benefits to the community through a partnership with an existing establishment, be it another school university or private sector organiacademy that can demonstrate benefits to the community through a partnership with an existing establishment, be it another school university or private sector organisation.

Community of Peace Academy (CPA) was established as a charter school and is sponsored by the St. Paul Public School Disschool and is sponsored by the St. Paul Public School DisSchool District.

The report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.

Between 2010/11 and 2016/17, 4,674 schools, mainly those that Ofsted had rated as good or outstanding, became academies without a sponsor.

These brand new schools are set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

One chief executive told Reform they felt their chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or academies requiring sponsors.

The IAA is rooted in the sponsored Academy movement but is now attracting increasing numbers of like - minded converters, primary, special and free schools.

The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an academy chain sponsor will provide its academies with additional services, such as hiring executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

In a statement, the DfE said: «As more schools choose to convert to academy status and struggling schools become academies with the support of a strong sponsor, it is important RSCs have the right resources to build system capacity and hold schools to account for their performance.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thiSCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thischool has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking.

Tom Atwood, chairman of the schools sponsor Atwood Academies, said: «The people of Bexhill and more particularly the children of Bexhill have in recent years been let down badly by an ill thought out building design and worse a dreadful implementation of the new build.

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

«Local authorities are only required to cover a school's deficit costs if it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance.

The commissioning of academies is currently undertaken by two separate bodies: the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which is an executive agency of the DfE responsible for funding schools, and the Schools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy spschools, and the Schools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy spSchools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy spschools to academy sponsors.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municiSchools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools is separately allocated through the municipality.

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

Since September 2010, 2,949 Primary Schools have become academies, 943 of which are «sponsored academies» — with sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academySchools have become academies, 943 of which are «sponsored academies» — with sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academyschools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academy trust.

The remaining 2,006 converter academies do not have sponsors and are schools previously assessed as «performing well» that have chosen to make the transition to academy status.

The academy conversion model (initially common in schools in special measures, known as «sponsor» academies) is now chosen by many good / outstanding schools (known as «convertor» academies) as it turns a school into an independent business (not for profit) that receives funding directly from central government instead of a local authority.

Provision for art and design is increasingly influenced by school type, and most worryingly academy sponsors have been the biggest reduction in time for the subject.

The academy opened in a disadvantaged part of western Newcastle in 2008, it is a sponsored academy, supported by the Laidlaw Schools Trust, and has since become an all ‑ through school, with an on - site primary.

Under a Conservative Government, any school that Ofsted says «requires improvement» and can not demonstrate that it has the capacity to improve will have to become a sponsored academy.

Schools minister Nick Gibb said: «Converter academies are leading the way in strong academic standards and over time we will see the excellence and expertise of strong sponsors spread.

The resources are suitable for all staff at any type of school, school governors, parents, government, local authority, free school, and academy sponsors.

They might even partner with an existing non-selective school within a multi-academy trust or sponsor a currently underperforming non-selective academy.»

The Academy Partnership Award, sponsored by ESPO, last year went to Manchester Communication Academy, a new high school and community facility with three principal partners — BT, Manchester College and the City Council.

23 - 27 — Professional development: «Total Quality Transformation: Train - the - Trainer,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, CSchool Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, CSchool Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Cschool, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Calif..

18 - 19 — Professional development: «The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: The «Principle - Centered» Approach to Quality Schools,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for superintendents, central - office administrators, board members, principals, teachers, and parents, to be held at the Mills House Hotel in Charleston, S.C. Contact: A.A.S.A. - N.A.S.E., 1801 North Moore St., Arlington, Va. 22209 - 9988; [phone]; fax: [phone].

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«North Yorkshire County Council supports the application from Heathfield Academy Trust, which already sponsors a number of schools near Catterick and who the DfE identified as a potential sponsor for the new school in Catterick.

Sponsored academies are transforming some of the most challenging schools across the country, tackling decades of failure and mediocrity — new sponsors should be given the best possible opportunity to tackle these issues and transform pupils» education.»

Nutritious Champions Manchester Health Academy in Wythenshawe, took home the School Catering Award sponsored by ParentPay.

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

The research found that converting schools into sponsored academies may rise standards in the year after they are converted, but this improvement dissipates over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school became an academy.