Sentences with phrase «become academy sponsors»

More than a quarter of all applications to become academy sponsors were either deferred or rejected over the same period.

«The government must commit to removing the unnecessary red tape and give high performing maintained schools the option of becoming academy sponsors.

Not exact matches

With high school basketball becoming so popular with shoe sponsors like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Under Armour, etc, I won't be surprised if Van Komen goes to a prolific prep academy next year for his senior year.

However, the NASUWT suggested that the government's proposal for new academy schools to become exempt charities was «a naked attempt to provide a further tax loophole for private sponsors.»

Between 2010/11 and 2016/17, 4,674 schools, mainly those that Ofsted had rated as good or outstanding, became academies without a sponsor.

In a statement, the DfE said: «As more schools choose to convert to academy status and struggling schools become academies with the support of a strong sponsor, it is important RSCs have the right resources to build system capacity and hold schools to account for their performance.

«Local authorities are only required to cover a school's deficit costs if it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance.

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

Since September 2010, 2,949 Primary Schools have become academies, 943 of which are «sponsored academies» — with sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academy trust.

Focus Education, which is set to host a series of «Becoming an Academy» events this summer providing insight and guidance on how to approach the transition, is the sponsor of the charitable multi-academy trust, Focus Trust, which was established in 2013.

The academy opened in a disadvantaged part of western Newcastle in 2008, it is a sponsored academy, supported by the Laidlaw Schools Trust, and has since become an all ‑ through school, with an on - site primary.

Under a Conservative Government, any school that Ofsted says «requires improvement» and can not demonstrate that it has the capacity to improve will have to become a sponsored academy.

The research found that converting schools into sponsored academies may rise standards in the year after they are converted, but this improvement dissipates over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school became an academy.

This comes as the National Audit Office (NAO) casts doubt over the government's plans to continue to force schools to become academies, despite there being no available sponsors in their area.

However, the research did outline that the smaller number of «sponsored» academies which were previously under - achieving, made more progress when they became academies.

Interestingly, the schools were also fond to improve results in the year before they become a sponsored academy.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education said: «Councils are only required to cover a school's deficit when it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance, and the deficit was accumulated under council control.

Furthermore, Ofsted inspection ratings were more likely to increase in schools that became sponsored academies 2002 - 2009 which corroborated Key Stage 4 performance gains.

The head teacher of a school judged to be Good or Outstanding, irrespective of its context, is being encouraged to sponsor other schools and become de facto the executive principal and then CEO of the multi academy trust created.

Another source found that a third of respondents reported an increased demand for school places since becoming sponsored or converter academies.

«UCL was the first university in the country to have taken the step of becoming the sole sponsor of an academy because we believe that in sharing facilities, expertise and providing support to teachers and pupils, the partnership can bring about a fundamental improvement in the educational experience of pupils in the school and beyond.»

There is no data to support the secretary of state's argument that becoming a sponsored academy accelerates a school's improvement — there is evidence to show the opposite.»

«Yet Nicky Morgan is persisting with driving through Parliament a Bill that will force more and more schools to become sponsored academies whilst depriving parents and governors of any say in the matter.

A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council primaries that closed to become sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.

The figures therefore indicate that 49,000 more children would remain in schools designated «inadequate» for longer if all such schools become sponsored academies.

Internal government figures, released after a freedom of information request, show more than one in four inadequate secondary schools that became sponsored academies were rated inadequate again.

As part of the process of securing a positive new future for Jerounds Primary School, the National Education Trust (NETAT) has been proposed as the new sponsor for the school as it changes from being run by Essex County Council to becoming a new academy.

But almost all schools which were inadequate and became academies after 2010 did so through the sponsor route.

More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown.

But one academy chain source says the Department for Education has been clear that trusts must become sustainable and not rely on their sponsor's cash.

The government wants to expand the role of the commissioners, to include decisions on whether underperforming and «coasting» schools should become sponsored academies.

Sir David Carter, the National Schools Commissioner, has said that he would «welcome a conversation» with those «currently employed» by local authorities who might want to become sponsors of academies.

«However, there could also be competing explanations: the amount of [DfE] funding available to sponsors when a school became a sponsored academy reduced by 83 per cent between 2010 and 2014.»

«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.

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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.

There are just six academies in Knowsley: two are Inadequate, three Require Improvement and one has not been inspected since becoming a sponsored academy (predecessor school: Inadequate).

A poor showing can put a school at risk of being labelled as «coasting», potentially forcing them to become academies or be re-brokered to a different sponsor.

The retired property tycoon and former Labour donor put up nearly # 2.5 million to sponsor the school, which became the first all - through academy in the country.

The school may be told to become an academy or take on a new sponsor.

«I've always been passionate about the academies movement, passionate about high quality education, and had been involved in sponsoring other schools and seeing that transformation from special measures to becoming a good school.

Ms Renou said that she would be looking for more academies, and more businesses and charities with educational experience, to consider becoming sponsors.

Maintained schools that convert to become sponsor - led academies, whose predecessor schools were most recently judged good or outstanding, are treated as new schools for inspection purposes and are subject to a section 5 inspection as their first inspection; this will normally take place within three years of the school becoming a sponsor - led academy.

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.

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.