Sentences with phrase «by academy chains»

Recent inspections of schools run by academy chains have shown many of these schools to be failing.

The NUT conference will hear calls for industrial action in opposition to the changes, which union leaders say could threaten teachers» pay and job security, as such decisions about pay and conditions would be decided by academy chains.

The complexities of running a school mean many of these new state - funded, but independently - run, schools are actually led by academy chains and education companies.

The NUT conference heard calls for industrial action in opposition to the changes, which union leaders say could threaten teachers» pay and job security, as such decisions about pay and conditions would be decided by academy chains.

Among them were several payments made by the academy chain E-ACT while it was subject to a financial notice to improve, including one payment of # 179,651 in 2013 - 14.

Struggling academies could face rapid intervention and being taken over by another academy chain, in new powers proposed by the education secretary.

According to government figures, it is one of seven free schools run by academy chain Ark that have been delayed in the past three years.

She has said schools will be offered help to improve first, before existing head teachers are replaced by an academy chain.

Almost one fifth of respondents noted that CPD in their school was either entirely internal, largely internal, or only used CPD providers approved by an academy chain.

Not exact matches

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LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

Some are set up by parent - led consortia, and some by the kind of organisations that already run chains of academies.

«The call for academy chains to face inspection is now widely supported, including by the Chief Inspector.

In one case examined by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) an academy chain allegedly paid # 424,850 to a solicitors» firm part - run by one of its directors.

Free schools are newly established schools set up by groups such as teachers, parents, businesses and academy chains, with freedom over areas such as the curriculum.

Bloomberg said the charter school expansion would be achieved mainly by speeding up the replication of chain - style charters such as KIPP and the Success Academy network that already have a presence in the city.

By unfolding into a cellular chain, clusters of cancer cells can slide through capillary tubes less than 10 micrometers wide, Sam Au of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report April 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

This is the first academy chain to give up all of its schools, of which five of the 12 sponsored by the group are rated as «inadequate».

A cap on the number of schools that an academy chain can take on, which is often criticised by Ofsted, is to be considered by government.

Interviews conducted by Reform found that the current top - slice arrangement is creating a system in which the headteacher views the academy as a «client buying into the chain service», rather than as a branch of the chain, which can lead to tension between headteachers and chain leadership.

This makes clear that the support provided by governors, local education authorities and academy chains to head teachers is equally as important as that provided to a teacher by line manager or head of department.

The suggestion is that the GAG currently given to individual academies should instead be given to academy chains before being distributed by the chain to its academies.

The Sutton Trust report - Chain Effects 2017 - written by Merryn Hutchings and Becky Francis, which is now in its fourth year, looks at the results of disadvantaged pupils in academy chains with at least two sponsored academies for at least three years.

Many academies, including most of the strongest, are now run by «chains» — the British version of CMO's — which are also being asked to turn around low - performing schools.

The large salaries enjoyed by chief executives at some of England's academy chains is not justified by the performance of the schools they run, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.

An academy chain has dropped its plans to extend the school day by 45 minutes, following protests from parents and teachers.

Teachers have particularly seized the opportunity to set up a new school; 67 per cent of free schools have been started by groups led by teachers, existing successful schools, academy chains or existing providers.

The think tank report, Primary Focus, proposes that the government «convert all primary schools into academies, and then ask each school to join an academy «chain» by 2020».

Apr - 13 TKAT Bridgemary School Ofsted «inadequate» Jul - 13 TKAT Collapse of Swedish «free» school chain Jul - 13 TKAT Havant Academy Ofsted «inadequate» Oct - 13 TKAT Bridgemary School Warning notice issued re Bridgemary School Jan - 14 TKAT The Kemnal Academy Trust Overall 2013 GCSE results below floor target Jan - 14 TKAT TKAT 26 out of 40 heads replaced Jan - 14 TKAT Weyfield Primary Academy Head disappears over holidays, Weyfield Primary Feb - 14 TKAT Dame Janet Primary Requires improvement Mar - 14 TKAT King Harold B & E Academy Requires improvement Jun - 14 TKAT Heybridge Primary Requires improvement Jun - 14 TKAT Portfield Primary School Requires improvement Jul - 14 TKAT Salmestone Primary Requires improvement Jul - 14 TKAT Seymour Primary Requires improvement Jul - 14 TKAT Criticised by Ofsted: Overwhelming proportion of pupils not getting reasonable education Oct - 14 TKAT Thomas Bennett Community Requires improvement Nov - 14 TKAT Weyfield Primary Academy Inadequate (see previous entry) Jan - 15 TKAT Newlands Primary Requires improvement Jul - 15 TKAT Chichester High School for Boys Requires improvement

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of the Success Academy public - charter chain and a target of de Blasio's, told me that she believes de Blasio has been blinded to alternate approaches by his ideology and by his loyalty to the teachers union.

The trust was praised by Ofsted in only the third focused inspection into an academy chain in July.

The fact that councils can no longer open new schools is the subject of a long - running campaign by the Local Government Association, which has warned that there aren't enough «viable» academy chains to take on extra schools.

An analysis published by the Policy Exchange think tank showed that in the most recent waves of free schools, more than two - thirds were opened by academies or academy chains.

A regional schools commissioner (RSC) has been «poached» to join an academy chain set up by a government minister.

Run by the academy sponsoring chain ARK, this primary school will open on a temporary site in the Queen's Park area of north Westminster in September.

It can also assist where an established academy is taken over by an existing academy chain or where a free school is established upon the merger, take - over and / or closure of existing schools or services.

But Morgan's hopes were quickly dashed when the NASUWT general secretary, Chris Keates, followed her at the podium and asked Morgan to reconsider the plan to move 16,000 schools in England from local authority oversight to control by chains of academy trusts by 2022.

An academy chain established by the schools minister has been forced to drop controversial plans to extend the day for children as young as five after protests from parents and teachers.

Malcolm Trobe, the interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said salary levels were set by factors including the value - for - money the chief executives provided, and could be offset by the saving an academy chain could bring, such as group discounts for contracts.

An analysis of academy accounts by Schools Week found the deficit for the LGPS, a defined contribution benefit scheme for non-teaching staff including school business leaders and teaching assistants, is growing every year as chains expand and returns on investment fail to improve.

It's something that academy chains such as Ark and Inspiration Trust have made a priority by appointing teams of specialists to work with their schools to develop communities of subject knowledge.

It is also seen as one of the most successful; all of its academies that have been inspected since takeover have been rated «good» or «outstanding» by Ofsted, and the chain is regularly singled out for praise by ministers.

Schools which are already academies and which fall into the «requires improvement» category face being taken away from their existing academy chain and run by another.

The free schools programme, established by Michael Gove in 2010 as a way for members of the public and teachers to set up their own schools, is increasingly used by large, established academy chains to start their own schools.

Another academy trust has been criticised for underperformance by Ofsted in the education watchdog's second focused inspection of an academy chain.

... Pupils at the nine schools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chains....

The day - to - day running of the school is down to the head teacher or principal, but they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain.

Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), the biggest academy chain in the country, is migrating to a cloud - based MIS called Progresso operated by Advanced.

An academy chain has been accused by Ofsted inspectors of not making enough progress, with warnings the quality of education for too many pupils is «not good enough».