Sentences with phrase «about academies and free schools»

The Regional Schools Commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire is responsible for making decisions about the academies and free schools in the following local authorities:

How much can we really deduce about academies and free schools from the Organisation for Economic Development's (OECD) international education rankings?

The Regional Schools Commissioner for South - East England and South London is responsible for making decisions about the academies and free schools in the following local authorities:

The Regional Schools Commissioner for North - West London and South - Central England is responsible for making decisions about the academies and free schools in the following local authorities:

Well balanced answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about academies and free schools.

How much can we really deduce about academies and free schools from the Organisation for Economic Development's (OECD) international education rankings?

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Exeter Academy Previously the BHA signed a letter published in the Observer expressing concerns about the group, following on from which the BHA met with the Free Schools team at the Department for Education and set out the concerns now being publicised.

I don't agree with his views on academies or free schools but the issue of apprenticeships and the lack of leadership shown by government departments on this is the type of issue that Labour shadow ministers should be shouting about wherever they can.

From my point of view the main embarrassment has been and continues to be Liberal Democrat support for Osborne's economic policies: others may be concerned about other issues (support for the restructuring of the NHS, or the creation of «free» schools and extension of the academy programme, for example).

2.57 pm: My colleague Paul Owen has just been to a fringe meeting where David Laws was explaining his worries about the coalition's expansion of the academies programme and introduction of free schools.

Over the past year, Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested discussions about reforming SRE guidance, which currently allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching the subject in class.

The lessons of the Trojan Horse plot were not, therefore, about the rights and wrongs of faith schools, free schools or academies, but — as Peter Clarke made clear in his report — about poor governance, inadequate Ofsted inspections, and negligence by Birmingham City Council which «failed to intervene appropriately».

The results come amid growing pressure from SRE campaigners for the government to reconsider its current guidance on the subject, which allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching pupils about sex.

Muskegon Heights, where about 95 percent of the students are African - American and the entire district is directly certified for free school meals, is now a self - managed K - 12 charter district calling itself the Muskegon Heights Public School Academy System, with 900 stuschool meals, is now a self - managed K - 12 charter district calling itself the Muskegon Heights Public School Academy System, with 900 stuSchool Academy System, with 900 students.

Outlines routes to a new employer — a transfer to academy status, a transfer from a single academy to a multi-academy trust, a transfer to a new multi-academy trust and a note about free schools.

About six of the new free schools are being run by groups already operating academy chains and for the leaders of these new schools, it has also been a momentous journey.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London says its new primary free school - Ark Conway - came about because of a three - way partnership between the local authority, the Ark academy chain and parents.

Of the 24 free schools opening this month, about six are being set up by faith groups, a similar number are parent - or teacher - led and five will be run by trusts already running academies.

The Committee stated that it is too early to draw conclusions about the overall impact that academies and free schools are having on the education system.

Currently about a quarter of state schools in England are academies or free schools, run independently and funded directly from Whitehall rather than through local authorities.

RSCs are taking critical decisions about our children's schools — including influencing whether new free schools get the go - ahead and monitoring performance of academies.

This document provides a brief description of academies (of which free schools are a type), maintained schools, and other types of school and provides information about how they compare in areas such as curriculum, staffing, admissions and finance.

At Indianapolis charter school Christel House Academy, 90 percent of students receive free or reduced price lunches and about 70 percent pass state tests.

Concerns of potential conflicts of interests have been raised about individuals contracted to work as advisers in the government's academies and free schools programme in England.

However, heads and academy principals might feel a little apprehensive about his call to bring free schools and academies «back into the orbit of public education and local authorities».

Academies and free schools must publish any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational needs about the support provided by the school.