The government argues that
allowing academy trusts to run schools without parent governors is not the same as removing them.
Although, it is not clear at present if the government will
allow an academy trust to say no to a coasting school or academy.
The new register will
allow academy trusts to deliver apprenticeship training to their own staff and pupils instead of relying on other providers, such as colleges or a private business.
There were also concerns raised about plans which would
allow academy trusts to operate without any parent governors.
The government has confirmed it has a grammar school get - out clause that
allows academy trusts to filter their brightest pupils to another site, effectively creating selective schools and dodging the need for new laws to be passed.
Not exact matches
A petition, which aims to
allow local authorities to take back the
academies in their area that used to be part of Wakefield City
Academy Trust, has been launched.
The West London Free School
Academy Trust allows parent across all its schools to set up standing orders.
The government has also disputed claims that the quality of MATs» provision is not fairly evaluated, as debate continues into whether Ofsted should be
allowed to inspect
academy trusts.
The use of the system across our
academies allows Trustees to compare effectively and efficiently, and also facilitates the strategic decision making required to secure improvements at school, cluster and
Trust level.
Academy trusts will be judged on their schools» Ofsted ratings, published performance measures on progress and attainment and their improvement over time before being
allowed to expand as...
If any of these were local authorities it would be headline news, whereas these
academy trust failures are quietly swept under the carpet and the myth of the success of the
academy programme is
allowed to continue.
The
trust was put on the Department for Education's «pause list» in 2012 — meaning it was not
allowed to take on new schools — after running into trouble after it expanded quickly in the early years of the
academy programme.
In England, only schools with
academy status are
allowed to form
trusts to sponsor weaker schools.
There has been strong opposition to the all -
academy plan from local government - and this has prompted claims that the government might compromise by
allowing local authorities to create their own
academy trusts.
This
allows you to see which
academies are within each single or multi-
academy Trust, which schools are supported by which approved sponsor, and, if the school is a converter or sponsored
academy, which school was the predecessor school.
It
allowed Greenwood
Academies Trust to grow an unbalanced portfolio in the same way other MATs, E-Act, AET, TKAT, CfBT, were also
allowed to grow too quickly.
The SchooliP Multi
Academy Trust View
allows trusts to adopt the same improvement model, effectively linking improvement and SEF to staff development.
Bailey said that
allowing the Dean
Trust to go ahead with the plans would give a green light to all
academy trusts across England to move children between their schools without consulting parents.