Sentences with phrase «authority schools compare»

Refining this further based on the statement, the question is something like how do the exam results or Ofsted performance of academies and local authority schools compare?

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Evidence on the performance of academies compared to local authority schools is mixed, but on the whole suggests there is no substantial difference in performance.

An overwhelming majority of Tory members (84 %) believe that schools should teach children to obey authority, compared with 31 % of Labour members and 38 % of SNP and Lib Dem members.

Indeed, every single one of the schools Lord Harris has taken over gets at least an additional twenty per cent or more young people to pass five good GCSEs compared to the record when the Local Authority ran it.

In some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievement.

But after changes to the way writing was assessed in 2016, unions raised concerns that the local authorities» expectations of the assessments varied so much that it became unfair to compare schools.

Not all will have fully appreciated, however, the economies of scale and bigger «clout» that comes with being a part of a local authority purchaser compared with those of only one school on its own.

Alternatively the West Midlands was found to have the least variation between local authorities, but still has some striking differences, with 13 per cent of schools being academies in Cheshire West and Chester compared to 48 per cent in Stoke on Trent.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

SchoolDash created a sample of secondary academies and local authority schools with similar characteristics to see how their exam results compare.

Free schools have triple the number of unqualified teachers in their classrooms compared to local authority - maintained schools.

That compares to only seven per cent of inadequate secondary schools that stayed with their local authority.

When MATs are compared to SATs and Local Authorities (LAs) in terms of financial efficiencies, research has shown that LA schools spend slightly more per pupil on running expenses than both SATs and MATs, but MAT schools spend more on teaching staff, supply staff and support staff.

The difference between MATs and local authority schools was more pronounced at secondary school level, with a # 49 saving on running expenses for those in MATs compared to in a local authority school.

There was a saving of # 6 per pupil for primary schools on running expenses when they were in a multi-academy trust, compared to being with their local authority.

Schools in multi-academy trusts spend less on «back office» costs and more on primary teaching staff, compared to standalone academies and local authority sSchools in multi-academy trusts spend less on «back office» costs and more on primary teaching staff, compared to standalone academies and local authority schoolsschools.

Free schools are, incidentally, by far the biggest employers of unqualified teachers — 19 per cent of their teachers have no recognised training qualification according to the 2014 School Workforce and School Characteristics datasets, compared to less than 3 per cent in local authority schools.

The DfE said there are 41 local authority schools that have been in special measures for more than 18 months, compared to just nine academies.

«That compares with the years and even decades of neglect many schools suffered under local authority control.»

There are minimal differences in outcomes at academies compared to local authority maintained schools — although, overall, LA maintained schools performed slightly better — by 1 per cent across almost all areas.

Press Association analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data, shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 %) saw a drop in the proportion of pupils given their first choice of secondary school, compared with the year before, while 68 authorities (45 %) saw a fall in the percentage given one of their overall preferences.

teachers in academies were more likely to have been denied progression than teachers in local authority schools (23 % compared to 17 %); and

An 11 % decrease in exclusions from local authority schools was recorded - there were 26,844 cases in 2010 - 11 compared with 30,211 in 2009 - 10.

Schools and Local Authorities must take reasonable steps to make sure that disabled pupils, including children who are not yet at school and in some cases former pupils, are not put at a substantial disadvantage compared with a non-disabled pupil.