Sentences with phrase «autonomy of academy schools»

A further 10 per cent said they didn't know what effect the autonomy of academy schools had in the classroom, according to a poll of 143 academy leaders carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research.

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This is potentially at odds with Mr Gove's previous statement that «I do not believe that the Government's policy of promoting autonomy, encouraging schools to convert to Academy status and establishing new Free Schools and Academies will alter the balance between faith and non-faith schools in this country.schools to convert to Academy status and establishing new Free Schools and Academies will alter the balance between faith and non-faith schools in this country.Schools and Academies will alter the balance between faith and non-faith schools in this country.schools in this country.»

It's unclear whether academies will work in the smaller and much more numerous primary schools — of which so far around 10 % are academies; and whether primary heads and governors have the breadth of expertise and the time to take on the responsibilities of greater autonomy.

Academies were first introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government back in 2000 as a way to raise standards in schools by taking them away from the control of local authorities and offering more autonomy over finances and day to day school management.

If converting to a standalone academy, the potential for greater autonomy in certain areas of school life may be one of your key motivations.

NGA has devised four model SoDs, which represent a range of approaches: with academy governing committees; with academy councils; with cluster governing committees (reporting on a number of academies); and with so - called «earned autonomy» (variable levels of responsibility for academy committees, often depending on the school's performance).

Schools are taking on markedly more autonomy under the academies programme, multi-academy trusts (MATs) are springing up around the country, and all the talk is now of a «self - improving and school - led system».

With increased local autonomy schools and academies are expected to review every aspect of their operations and legacy organisational structures.

Leora Cruddas, chief executive officer of Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association (FASNA), said: «The Public Accounts Committee is right to report on academy finances.

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Reforms targeting governance and funding policies were also included in the analysis, such as the increase in the number of academies in England as part of moves to gives schools greater autonomy.

Among staff working in schools without academy status, only 10 per cent of senior leaders and seven per cent of teachers think the extra autonomy has a beneficial effect in the classroom.

In his speech to a London school this week, Mr Clegg will say: «I'm proud of our work over the last three years to increase school autonomy, which, in government with the Conservatives, has been through the academies programme.»

1 We consulted the following educators by e-mail and telephone: Jacqueline Ancess, Codirector, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, and founding Principal of Manhattan East Middle School, New York, NY; Sanda Balaban, Autonomy Zone Liaison for New York City Department of Education and Coordinator of Homework Audit for New Mission High School, Roxbury, MA; Avram Barlowe, history teacher, Urban Academy, New York, NY; Ann Cook, Codirector, Urban Academy, and Cochair, New York Performance Standards Consortium, New York, NY; Cecelia Cunningham, Director of Middle College National Consortium and former Principal of Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College, New York, NY; Herb Mack, Codirector, Urban Academy, New York, NY; Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, and founding Principal of Central Park East Elementary and Secondary Schools, New York, NY, and Mission Hill School, Boston, MA; Marian Mogulescu, education consultant and former Codirector of Vanguard High School, New York, NY; and Sylvia Rabiner, Project Manager, the Institute for Student Achievement, and founding Principal of Landmark High School, New York, NY.

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Under his blueprint, academies and local authority schools would have similar levels of autonomy.

The polling of 1,246 teachers and school leaders across England by the National Foundation for Educational Research found that although 42 % of the sample of 143 academy leaders said academy autonomy had a positive effect in the classroom, 30 % believed their autonomy had «no effect» and 18 % said it had a negative effect.

High - performing charter schools in the Recovery School District — such as Sophie B. Wright, Lafayette Academy and several KIPP campuses in Uptown — are concerned that the Orleans Parish School Board will take an administrative fee out of their federal grants if they return to the district, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of The Lens.

«The fig leaf of «parental choice», «school autonomy» and «raising standards» has finally been dropped and the government's real agenda has been laid bare — all schools removed from collaborative structures within a local authority family of schools, all schools instead run by remote academy trusts, unaccountable to parents, staff or local communities.»

Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 group of Tory backbenchers, said he was a strong supporter of academies and believed it was good for schools to be given freedom and autonomy to run their own affairs with the minimum of interference.

The Learning Trust Board will establish Academy Councils for each school in the Learning Trust and will delegate a range of governance functions to the Academy Councils using a system of earned autonomy.

David Hampson, principal of Tollbar Business and Enterprise College in Grimbsy, which is expecting to become an academy later this year, said schools would profit from the greater autonomy.