Sentences with phrase «control become academies»

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In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.

Under the provisions of the academies bill schools will be given the opportunity to become academies, freeing them of control by local authorities.

Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.

As a consequence of this, the Methodist Church was required by the DfE to set up an Academy umbrella, the Methodist Academies and Schools Trust (MAST), or else lose control of its schools that become Academies.

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David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said that it was simply not fair that some struggling schools are burdened with a deficit when under council control, while others could become academies and leave town halls with the bill.

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.

Becoming an academy may be an attractive prospect due to the increased freedom to decide how teaching is delivered, and greater control over admissions and student numbers.

For example, a small state controlled school who is contemplating becoming an academy would need to first consider whether they would want to be part of a Trust with other schools or do they stand alone?

There are further benefits to becoming an academy, such as greater control over admissions and student numbers; freedom to purchase support services from providers offering the best value and service; and applying for capital grants from central government.

The online petition states that «there is no evidence that becoming an academy improves the outcomes of our children and young people» and demands that the Department for Education allows local authorities to «take back democratic control of the academies in their area».

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.

This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of number of schools opting out of Local Authority control and becoming academies; employers in their own right.

New figures have cast further doubt on the government's assertion that becoming an academy improves schools — revealing inadequate schools have more chance of improving by staying under local authority control.

But with so many academies, free schools and foundation schools now controlling their own admissions, matters have become more complicated.

As more schools move out of local authority control and become academies, local authorities are also felt to be providing worse support.

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

Firstly, the approval of academies converting from maintained authority control to join a multi-academy trust (MAT) or become a stand - alone academy.

«When I decided to become a teacher, I imagined it would be a job that would nourish my deep need to be in control,» said Chaffee, a humanities teacher at Codman Academy in Boston.

Ministers want to force all schools in England to become academies making them independent of local authority control.

Mr Gove wants more schools in England to become academies, which are state - funded but semi-independent and outside local authority control.

While the government wants new groups to come forward to set up schools, it also wants all good existing schools to become academies - and like the free schools, these will be funded directly by Westminster and be outside of local authority control.

The government ultimately wants all state - funded schools in England to become academies - meaning they would be semi-independent, with greater control over the curriculum, the school day and pay and conditions of staff.

When schools become academies, they become semi-independent and outside of local authority control.

I assume that this school chose to become an academy to escape the clutches of its supposedly «controlling» LA, where there was at least a semblance of democratic accountability, only to fall into the hands of «unelected, unaccountable» civil servants who «are suffocating headteachers from doing their jobs».

«So if schools want to do that [become academies], they'll have all those advantages of money flowing directly to them, of having more control over what goes on in the school, of being their own admissions authority.»

These were outstanding schools which have taken up the government's offer to opt out of local authority control and become independent academies.

The Conservatives announced last year that they would allow the 400 top performing state secondary schools in England to become independent but state - funded academies free from government control.

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