Sentences with phrase «academy chain which»

He highlighted the E-ACT academy chain which lost ten of its schools after the DfE intervened amid performance concerns.

As well as the different types of academy, there is the question of the academy chains which run groups of academies.

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Only 39 % of academies are currently in a «collaborative chain» leaving the rest as «singletons», a drift which Twigg blamed Gove for.

If the sequel were a direct follow - up to the first game with real time passage, Jimmy would be far too old for the iconic school environment to persist, which is why it would likely concern a new character tackling the social food - chain of a modern day Bullworth Academy.

The Academy left out director Tobe Hooper, which seemed especially cruel since they used a clip from Hooper's acclaimed horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in another montage earlier in the evening.

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».

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In absence of the national funding formula (NFF), which has been delayed until 2018/19, it would also allow academy chains spanning more than one local authority to address large inequalities in funding.

A cap on the number of schools that an academy chain can take on, which is often criticised by Ofsted, is to be considered by government.

Interviews conducted by Reform found that the current top - slice arrangement is creating a system in which the headteacher views the academy as a «client buying into the chain service», rather than as a branch of the chain, which can lead to tension between headteachers and chain leadership.

«We want to examine the role and governance of MATs and ensure we have a system which ensures these academy chains deliver excellent performance while being properly held to account.»

The Sutton Trust report - Chain Effects 2017 - written by Merryn Hutchings and Becky Francis, which is now in its fourth year, looks at the results of disadvantaged pupils in academy chains with at least two sponsored academies for at least three years.

Many academies, including most of the strongest, are now run by «chains» — the British version of CMO's — which are also being asked to turn around low - performing schools.

He also confirmed that only seven of the 973 functioning multi-academy trusts (MAT) had been inspected as part of «batched inspections», which evaluate the standard of an entire academy chain due to concerns over standards.

Several large academy chains were approached for comment but did not respond, with the exception of Ark, which did not want to comment before more details are released.

The fact that councils can no longer open new schools is the subject of a long - running campaign by the Local Government Association, which has warned that there aren't enough «viable» academy chains to take on extra schools.

The success or otherwise of an individual academy can be hard to separate from the performance of the academy chain to which they have been assigned and which they can not choose to leave.

The NUT conference heard calls for industrial action in opposition to the changes, which union leaders say could threaten teachers» pay and job security, as such decisions about pay and conditions would be decided by academy chains.

Schools which are already academies and which fall into the «requires improvement» category face being taken away from their existing academy chain and run by another.

There was a controversial proposal to allow academy chains to operate without any elected parent governors, which ruffled the feathers of many people who had given up their time to help local schools.

It follows Ofsted's first focused inspection into an academy chain last month, which found Oasis Community Learning Trust had a «legacy of weak challenge».

Ark, which, with its network of 35 schools nationwide, is one of England's largest academy chains, says Clark brings with her «a wealth of experience in the education sector».

«My argument has been that academy status, especially in chains, provides schools with greater capacity and capability strength in both leadership and teaching, which is what makes the difference.»

The same warning was given last week to England's biggest academy chain, AET, after tough criticism from Ofsted, which accused AET of «failing too many pupils».

Reform's survey of academy trust bosses also shows a worrying collective view about the minimum number of schools needed to make chains efficient, which is especially concerning in the context of data that shows that the vast majority of trusts have fewer than 10 schools.

This is money which should be spent on educating children: not being stashed in «reserves» on balance sheets or used to fund exorbitant salaries for Chief Executives of unaccountable academy chains.

Reform, in its new report Academy chains unlocked, has called for the national and regional schools commissioners and parts of the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which deal with financial accountability, to form a new body that could then merge with the schools wing of Ofsted — should all schools become academies.

Ian Cleland, chief executive of the Academy Transformation Trust (ATT), which runs 24 schools, said his chain would share «experience and expertise» in apprenticeships linked to services in a school.

The NUT conference will hear calls for industrial action in opposition to the changes, which union leaders say could threaten teachers» pay and job security, as such decisions about pay and conditions would be decided by academy chains.

The NUT also challenges the idea that academies are more autonomous, arguing that individual schools will lose their identity and independence once absorbed into academy chains, which would not need to have parent governors.

Although academies and free schools can not be run for profit, many are run by private, non-profit making organisations - some of which run «chains» of several schools.

Professor Arthur is also a director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, which is a strategic adviser for Floreat Education, an academy chain run by David Cameron's former adviser James O'Shaughnessy and which opened its first free schools this month.

This opens another sub-set of specific concerns about the long - term implications for small schools, rural schools and the protection of the ethos and character of schools, whether church schools or grammar schools, all of which would come under academy chains and the regional schools commissioners.

What is clear is that charter chains like Success Academy, which boast very high scores on state tests and very little tolerance for even mildly divergent behavior, are pleased since they will no longer have to bother with new teachers who have actually learned to teach and have existing teaching experience and knowledge of pedagogy.

The Vice Chair of Eva Moskowitz's infamous New York City based Success Academy Charter Schools dropped $ 1,500 on the event, thanks to donations from board members and his wife, while another donation came from a board member of the Newark, New Jersey, Team Charter School chain, which is owned by KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, a «national network» of 125 charter schools around the Country.

The legacy of the Charter School movement in the US - KIPP in particular - echoes through the rapid emergence of new kinds of school organisation in the UK — federations clustered around «Teaching Schools» which, partnered with a university, provide professional development from initial teacher training to leadership and management across groups of schools; independent yet state - funded chains of academies and the new «Free Schools».

The success of the Empiribox field trials, which has involved more than 50 primary schools nationwide — including academy chains and Academy Enterprise Trust organisations — means the enterprise behind the system will now be making it available to all primary schools in England andacademy chains and Academy Enterprise Trust organisations — means the enterprise behind the system will now be making it available to all primary schools in England andAcademy Enterprise Trust organisations — means the enterprise behind the system will now be making it available to all primary schools in England and Wales.

Rich Davies, head of data for academy chain Ark, which sponsors the academy, said: «There was a real focus on maths and English and we have seen a massive uplift in those results.