Sentences with phrase «authority school places»

Liberal Democrat sources say 30,000 local authority school places are being lost as money is diverted to free schools.

Lib Dem sources say 30,000 local authority school places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools.

Birmingham City Council said it would work with Saltley School, the only local authority school placed in special measures, and the Department for Education to install a temporary governing board.

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Local authorities then determine the post-16 place funding to individual maintained special schools.

Since almost all Nettelhorst students live in the neighborhood and walk to school, critics look to some distant central office bureaucrat placing limits on our principal's power and authority and cry foul.

Place funding at special free schools is not included in the 2016 to 2017 DSG allocations and no deductions will be made from local authorities» DSG for places in these schools.

Local authorities and maintained schools may have agreed changes to 2016 to 2017 high needs place numbers.

Places in mainstream free schools will be funded on the same basis as those in a mainstream academy, with deductions made from the local authority in which the free school is located.

This should be calculated using the number of places in the provision which are used by pupils in the school (as opposed to pupils on the rolls of other schools) excluding places occupied by under 5s and pupils aged 16 to 19, although authorities can use a different basis if this is agreed by EFA.

Under the finance regulations, local authorities have the flexibility to make changes to the number of pre-16 places funded in maintained schools and PRUs.

Therefore 2016 to 2017 top - up rates are in line with the guarantee and funding to the special school should reflect these rates (for students placed by the home authority); number of students in each band; and the actual numbers of places.

All AP places will be funded at # 10,000 per place in 2016 to 2017 and must include those which schools commission directly, as well as those that the local authority commission.

The regulations do not allow local authorities to make changes to the number of post-16 funded places in maintained schools and PRUs.

Either way, this specialist provision is not funded through the main school funding formula; the place or central service funding comes from the local authority's high needs budget.

Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

copies of any correspondence - electronic or otherwise - which took place between the local authority and the school and the DfE and the school regarding academy status;.

That's why in discussion with the school authority we decided to refurbish the library to provide a conducive place for learning and to preserve the books which we hope will send a signal to continuing students that all they need to do better than us in conquering the world can be found in books and in the library.

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

The local authorities have no say in this, and the department for education has no sanction for those new schools, set up apparently because of high demand, that end up with many unfilled places.

«We have to bring it back to a local level, rebuild the family of education, require local authorities to oversee and provide supplementary resources to schools and allow them to build new schools to meet the need for more places.

After its election the Government put this requirement on a statutory footing: Clause 1 of the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from SeptembeSchools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from Septembeschools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from September 2002.

Miller Place school authorities confirmed they have assigned armed personnel to each of the district's four schools, joining a growing list of Long Island school districts clamping down on campus security.

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.

Fundamental to this is the ability to have enough school places to educate our children and young people — a power which is vested in local authorities.

But only one of the schools in each place is maintained by local authorities — the remaining schools in Birmingham are academies and independent Muslim schools in Tower Hamlets, outside of local authority control.

We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.

Lib Dem sources claim 30,000 local authority places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools, but aides to Mr Gove say more school places are being created overall.

The manifestos are mixed on this issue: while the Conservatives show no inclination to slow down their erosion of the powers of local government when it comes to school places, and UKIP make little mention of it in relation to education, Labour want to return power to local authorities along with The Greens.

It says that while local authorities created 90,000 school places in 2012 - 13, an analysis based on an online survey of chief finance officers among its members, revealed that a further 130,000 places would still be needed by 2017 - 18.

The funding comprises # 980 million for local authorities in 2019 to 2020, to create over 60,000 school places needed.

The department amended its regulations in the wake of a 1983 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in National Soft Drink Association v. Block that the department exceeded its rulemaking authority when it issued orders on the «time and place» in which junk food could be sold on school grounds.

In Blackpool and Hartlepool local authorities there are no high performing secondary school places.

The union warned that local authorities, academies and central government take decisions on school places in isolation, adding that the rise in pupil numbers will make it even harder for parents to secure school places.

Under D.C. regulations, the schools chancellor has the power to place students directly into schools, regardless of their lottery results, but that authority is supposed to be limited to cases when it «would be in the best interests of the student» and «promote the overall interests of the school system.»

According to the EPI, virtually all local authorities with consistently low densities of high performing school places are in the North, particularly the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Citing the post-Brexit economy as another reason why the future is uncertain for school buildings, Mark Robinson adds: «The construction of new schools must be a top priority for government and local authorities must be given the tools and funding necessary to deliver extra places in time.

Even better, any schools or local authorities placing orders at the show will qualify for a chunky 10 % discount!

The Department for Education (DfE) has said that local authorities have plans to create 52,000 more secondary school places by 2018, with # 7 billion is committed to new places.

The funding differences are even more stark: if a new school is opening under the free school programme the capital funding comes from the generous free school budget but if a local authority is opening a new school, the funding must come from either general local authority funds (the calls upon which of course are many), or more likely from «targeted basic need funding», which is funding provided by the DfE to address the shortage of school places.

Many local authorities are just as happy now to provide capital grant to schools and academies to deliver additional school places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy tschool places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy tSchool Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy trusts.

Whilst it is early days, the trend is being encouraged by both local authorities and the EFA, perhaps recognising the need locally and nationally to develop capacity to deliver new build works and that schools are best placed to make decisions about where to focus investment to secure the right educational outcomes.

«Population changes are not a new phenomenon and local authorities, who are responsible for providing sufficient school places, have traditionally been able to plan to meet rising and falling demand.

Conclusion Regardless of whether they procure and manage their own broadband services or subscribe to services provided by a local authority or regional broadband consortium (RBC), all schools need to ensure they have an appropriate and up to date strategy in place to ensure the security and integrity of their networks and systems are maintained.

After the case, an HSE inspector said: «Although the school had not been under local authority control since 2011, it failed to ensure employees and management received adequate training to make up for the loss of local authority support and ensure that a suitable asbestos management plan was in place.»

There are conditions which local authorities must meet when they are putting forward a proposal for a new school, most importantly they must demonstrate they have a site and funding available (for any capital works) and that there is a demand for the new school places.

«The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

New Schools There are two ways of creating new schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision&Schools There are two ways of creating new schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision&schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision».