Sentences with phrase «academy chains do»

The researchers found that, on average, academy chains do better for their disadvantaged pupils with low prior attainment.

Not exact matches

Christine Blower, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Academy chains simply do not have the resources or expertise to resolve problems where they occur.

Critics have complained that Success Academy uses disciplinary tactics that weed out special - needs students and have fumed that the well - funded chain doesn't deserve free rent.

Desk workers should do the Academy's open - chain standing stability series.

This comes after Eva Moskowitz, chief executive of New York charter chain Success Academy, also told TES that she would not be interested as her work in New York was «far from done».

Hundreds of academy schools, including the largest academy chains, have already done so.

However, to make sure that the academies programme realises its goal of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, the report is urging the government, and the national and regional schools commissioners, to do more to create mechanisms that spread good practice from the best academy chains to the rest.

Milburn also recommended a zero - tolerance approach to failure in schools, saying that they should become parts of academy chains if they do not meet minimum standards.

The biggest of these is very simple - we do not have enough good academy chains as it is.

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.

Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: «Just because they have become an academy or are part of a chain doesn't mean that a school will automatically succeed.

And don't get me started on academy chains giving contracts to businesses run by people on their own governing bodies and boards of directors!

Conference, if you are an academy trustee you should be doing a public duty, giving the best governance to the academy, or academy chain, you are a trustee of.

All that being said, I do agree with your concern about there being enough competent academy chains.

The Department for Education did not say whether they approved or disapproved, saying it was up to academy chains to decide how to administer their schools and «we trust them to decide on the most appropriate arrangements for their trust».

Just last year Connecticut witnessed the collapse of the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school chain as a result of revelations that the company's CEO «Dr.» Michael Sharpe didn't actually have the academic credentials he claimed and, to boot, had been convicted of embezzling public funds when he was working in California.

Fortunately, the chain was small enough so when I wanted to also cover art museum shows (I attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Art) I could do so.