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It plans to ask the government to stop poor quality academy chains from sponsoring new schools and to extend academy freedoms, such as lifting the national curriculum, to maintained schools.

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Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is under fire from all sides for its harsh discipline policies and treatment of students with special needs.

To celebrate the Oscar season, Canada's Cineplex movie theater chain put together this excellent supercut video featuring footage from all of the different movies nominated for Academy Awards this year.

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.

The DfE has been reluctant to be too prescriptive about the optimum size of a multi-academy trust, but it is likely that over time we will see MATs grow from 3, 4, 5 schools, typically, to trusts operating at least a dozen and may be upwards of 20 — 25 schools, with there still being a place for academy chains of 50 + schools.

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The salary for Sir Daniel Moynihan, the Harris Academy chain's chief executive, has reached # 395,000 - # 400,000 after a recent salary rise, according to reports from the Guardian.

Another measure is to track the growing popularity of an academy or chain after the approval of marketing or communications spending, although it may be difficult to distinguish this from overall school improvement.

According to The Sutton Trust, over the last year, the government has been more willing to move underperforming academies from their chains and Regional Schools Commissioners have been actively re-brokering academies.

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».

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.

Ian Comfort, the group CEO of the Academies Enterprise Trust, the country's largest academy chain, has announced he is stepping down from his role.

An academy chain has dropped its plans to extend the school day by 45 minutes, following protests from parents and teachers.

The Collaborative Academies Trust (CAT) is the second chain to have received a «focused inspection» from Ofsted and the second to receive serious criticism from the inspectorate.

The education secretary Nicky Morgan said: «From helping to set up one of the country's top academy chains, to acting as a council member for the Institute of Education, to overseeing our ambitious qualification reform programme, Amanda has extensive experience at the frontline of the education system, making her uniquely qualified to take up this important role.

Sir David (pictured), who started the job at the beginning of February, was unable to answer questions about his plans to introduce a new tier system for academy chains and repeated requests from Schools Week for further information about transparency — and why it was now missing from his plans — were also refused.

It remains another great unknown how every primary school, from the inner cities to remote villages, will be allocated to academy chains.

In his interview, Sir David revealed plans to create four tiers of academy chains, ranging from starter trusts made up of five or fewer academies to «system leaders»: large chains with 30 or more schools under their umbrellas (see last page).

In his Autumn Statement, Mr Osborne said the «very best» academy chains in the north would benefit from an extra # 10 million to improve standards in schools where not enough pupils achieved five A * - C GCSEs, including English and maths.

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.

Academies Enterprise Trust, the country's largest academy chain, has a pension deficit of # 68.6 million, down from # 71.9 million the previous year, when nine of its academies were merged, closed or moved to otheAcademies Enterprise Trust, the country's largest academy chain, has a pension deficit of # 68.6 million, down from # 71.9 million the previous year, when nine of its academies were merged, closed or moved to otheacademies were merged, closed or moved to other trusts.

But Morgan's hopes were quickly dashed when the NASUWT general secretary, Chris Keates, followed her at the podium and asked Morgan to reconsider the plan to move 16,000 schools in England from local authority oversight to control by chains of academy trusts by 2022.

An academy chain established by the schools minister has been forced to drop controversial plans to extend the day for children as young as five after protests from parents and teachers.

This is the university's second academy chain, expanded after the City of Wolverhampton Academy Trust was banned from taking on new schools in 2013 - 14 due to poor perfoacademy chain, expanded after the City of Wolverhampton Academy Trust was banned from taking on new schools in 2013 - 14 due to poor perfoAcademy Trust was banned from taking on new schools in 2013 - 14 due to poor performance.

At present, academy chains can already remove governing bodies from their individual schools - and a single board of trustees can act as a governing body for the entire chain.

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.

Even if academy status is not compulsory, the proposals presumed a big expansion in academy chains - and there are questions, not least from Ofsted, about the need for more rapid intervention for academy chains that are underperforming.

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».

Ofsted should be given powers to inspect organisations that run chains of academies, says a report from a cross-party committee of MPs.

They are still in the same situation after forcible Academisation and then being removed from the first academy chain and handed over to a second.

England's largest academy chain has abandoned plans to close a town's only secondary school after a backlash from parents.

Sponsor chains — but especially those needing to improve — should seek out successful practice and reflect on what their own chain could learn from it, encouraging this outward - facing approach among practitioners at all levels within their academies

As previously, we included chains in our analysis only if they had at least three academies in 2015, and at least two sponsored secondary academies for a three year period from September 2012 — sufficient time for the sponsor chain to impact performance.

But academy chains vary in their effectiveness; Reform's new research attempts to find out why Selection in 2016 looks very different from grammars and secondary moderns, Theresa May insinuated last week at prime minister's questions.

It says that one in five academy chains is «performing substantially below the national average for attainment and improvement» for children from poorer families.

The Government, National Schools Commissioner and Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) must act urgently to create mechanisms to ensure the spread of good practice from the best academy chains to the rest

RSCs should continue to sharpen and make more transparent sponsor accountability processes, acting to remove academies from failing chains and closing those chains with poor records

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.

And he tells me that because the academy chain is concentrated in nearby Norfolk, he is also calling on staff from its other schools, for example to check coursework marking.

The chain grew rapidly to run 74 academies, but had to offload eight schools from December 2014 to April 2015 after government intervention.

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».

Two years ago a report from inspectors accused the academy chain of «low expectations» and said that too many pupils were «not receiving a good enough education».

«Eva Moskowitz Defends Success Academy Charter Chain From Critics.»

And what a surprise that the co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (Stefan Pryor) and the former principal of an Achievement First, Inc. school (Morgan Barth) are bringing together schools from around the state so that they can «learn» about best practices from two privatized, «no excuses» schools that have been taken over by the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school chain.

Selected group exhibitions includeUSA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery Royal Academy of Arts, London (2006); Chain Letter High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles (2006); LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side Peres Projects, Berlin (2006); and Desired Constellations Daniel Reich Gallery, New York (2005).