Sentences with phrase «academy sponsors failed»

Not exact matches

In 2011 it decided to sponsor a failing Church of England primary school, now called Tudor Grange Primary Academy St James, after being approached by the Diocese of Birmingham.

Schools that are already academies will not be exempt from government intervention, as those deemed as failing or coasting could face being forcibly transferred to new sponsors.

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

The department was ordered to reveal how much it paid new academy sponsors to takeover failing schools after a 12 - month legal battle concluded in favour of transparency campaigners.

The Department for Education (DfE) has been ordered to reveal how much it paid new academy sponsors to takeover failing schools, after a 12 - month legal battle concluded in favour of transparency campaigners.

«That is why we are replacing failing schools with sponsored academies, which are proven to raise standards, opening new free schools where parents want them and introducing a more rigorous curriculum, with qualifications that match the world's best.»

2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves on to smugly pointing out how some of the academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust.

«By requiring the Secretary of State to make an academy order in respect of a failing school, the clause will make it automatic that failing schools must become sponsored academies.

One last comment, as I understand it when a community school becomes an academy then if it is a sponsored conversion (e.g. because the school is failing and deemed to require substantial investment to turn it around) then the sponsoring MAT receives additional funding.

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.

The boards and their regulators will be given delegated powers, allowing them «to investigate and change the sponsors and management of failing academies or free schools», according to the Guardian, which has seen a leaked document on the plan.

When a school is deemed «failing», either in or outside a chain, commissioners currently go to their list of approved academy sponsors to find a chain to take it over.

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

That bill was introduced to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» and speed up the process of dealing with failing schools by taking them out of local authority control and putting them in the hands of academy sponsors.

Not only could this pose a risk to standards, but LAs may be affected too: if a failing school is forced to become a sponsored academy, the LA has to write off any deficit.

This is because sponsored academies replace underperforming schools that have generally been failed by Ofsted.

You say that not all schools seeking sponsors are failing, and the first example you gave is the six academies left behind by Prospects.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust, usually under a new principal and governing body.