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Instead, the media is now rightly asking questions about the performance of those academy chains with poor or middling results.

-- Threshold for conversion — a guarantee that only academy chains with a proven track record should be eligible to sponsor new academies

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.

It's due to be handed to a new sponsor (at taxpayers» expense), the Paradigm Trust, a small London - based academy chain with no experience of secondary education.

Not exact matches

Fast - casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long - running «Food With Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food productWith Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food productwith Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.

In September, Pizza Hut brought more than 1,000 area managers and area coaches to the chain's Dallas headquarters to taste and learn to make the new pizzas firsthand with the chain's Academy Team.

Free schools are newly established schools set up by groups such as teachers, parents, businesses and academy chains, with freedom over areas such as the curriculum.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

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.

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.

«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.

The employee number threshold has not yet been set, so it is unclear how many organisations this will effect, but it is likely to affect a number of large academy chains and education organisations with charitable status, including exam boards.

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.

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).

Open minded schools, local authorities and academy chains are moving into partnerships with commercial organisations in areas such as resource development and CPD.

To address these issues, The JJ Charitable Trust has granted # 1m over 3 years to the National Literacy Trust to implement the «Academies Programme» with the Aldridge Foundation and Ormiston Academies Trust academy chains.

Following Prime Minister David Cameron's calls in October that «local authorities running schools were a thing of the past», the announcement is due to make it easier for academy chains to take on failing schools, including those with financial or inspection problems.

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

According to an annual report, out of 48 academy chains, only eight saw poorer pupils with high prior attainment go on to progress over the national average.

And for some, School Direct is just the start of the journey, with a number of schools and academy chains choosing to take the next step and applying to become accredited school - led and school - centred ITT providers themselves (known as SCITTs).

The academy chain is currently made up of Reach2 and Reach4, with the knew Trust to be named Reach South.

After questioning Spielman, the Education Select Committee recognised her contributions to the education sector through her work with the ARK academy chain, but said it could not support her as Chief Inspector.

School Direct presents a fantastic opportunity to attract the best graduates into teaching — with groups of schools and academy chains offering real career development to compete with the best graduate employers.

If their predictions are correct, the levy will affect certain large academy chains and sector organisations with charitable status such as exam boards.

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.

Former education secretary David Blunkett has resigned as chair of the David Ross Education Trust, one of England's largest academy chains, with several other senior figures including the...

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).

Schools Week revealed last year how academy chains were switching sponsors at an increasing rate — with three changing hands in 2012 compared to 26 in 2014.

Mr Hoare was brought in to help large academy chain AET with difficulties.

The data also revealed that the lowest - performing chains included many larger trusts, that most secondary trusts with poorer pupils perform way below average, and that trusts with a mix of academies seem to perform better.

There is divergence with their coalition partners over allowing Ofsted to inspect academy chains.

It's something that academy chains such as Ark and Inspiration Trust have made a priority by appointing teams of specialists to work with their schools to develop communities of subject knowledge.

The regional schools commissioner for the south west of England Rebecca Clark is to leave her role at the Department for Education to take a new job with the academy chain Ark..

There is no way in hell that heads, unions, academy chains, local authorities or teachers should be engaging with this rot.

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.»

Auditors are increasingly raising the alarm about academy trusts at risk of running out of money, with chains raiding reserves and eyeing expansion to pay off deficits.

An academy chain has been accused by Ofsted inspectors of not making enough progress, with warnings the quality of education for too many pupils is «not good enough».

But the overall picture conforms with other researchers» findings: it's not clear how much capacity the academy chains have to hammer up results, even if the early ones were a success.

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.

Most maintained schools and academies in chains with an annual payroll of # 3 million or more will be forced to pay up.

«Only 15 % of the largest academy chains perform above the national average in terms of progress made by pupils, compared with 44 % of councils, while more than 80 % of maintained schools are rated as «good» or «outstanding» by Ofsted.

A spokesperson for the chain said it would develop its own staff and pupils with «various» apprenticeships while also offering training to other schools and academies.

While central government continues with its ludicrous policy of allowing academy chains to surcharge schools as much as they want for central services, maintained schools must buy such services.

But with the expansion of academies, it says that academy chains will play an increasingly important part in helping schools to improve.

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

But the report said often a failing school will become part of a chain of academies run by one sponsor with a central management function.

Some may have noticed that one of the proposed «conditions» of setting up a new selective school would be to partner with an academy chain or sponsor a new academy.

The under - fire Bright Tribe Academy Trust is planning to ditch its name and merge with its sister chain as it prepares to abandon all but one of its...

Large, geographically limited academy chains can provide a similar framework: John Blake and Zoe Howells are working with the established Harris Schools Direct provision to build something special that could replicate the model of the Cambridge PGCE.