Sentences with phrase «converting into an academy»

Struggling schools that were given more autonomy by being converted into academies under the former Labour government have seen improved exam results compared to similar schools that did not become academies, according to our new research.

You will be required to obtain consent from your governing body and consult with stakeholders before applying for an academy order, and to do so you will need to have a strong argument for why your school should convert into an academy.

However, the decision to convert into an academy is not one to be taken lightly, and schools should ensure they perform a proper assessment and seek out the external advice available to make a fully informed decision.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has backed down the proposals to force every school to convert into an academy, meaning only those deemed as failing or coasting will be forced to convert, as well as those in local authority areas no longer deemed to be «viable».

The new plans mean almost 17,000 schools which have not been converted into academy status must have committed to do so by 2020.

If they can not demonstrate improvement, or produce a plan for improvement, then they too could be converted into an academy.

The plans outline that every school will be in the process of being converted into an academy by 2020, with no schools remaining under local authority control by 2022.

Since Justine Greening was appointed Education Secretary, taking over from her predecessor Nicky Morgan, the government has backed away from its controversial plans to force all schools to convert into an academy — as initially set out in the Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper.

Sponsored academies Sponsored academies are formerly local authority maintained schools that were taken over and converted into an academy due to underperformance.

Councils potentially at risk of being branded as failing and having all their schools converted into academies — under new government plans revealed today — are overwhelmingly Labour - run.

Carter also welcomed a row back from education secretary Justine Greening on proposals for every school to have converted into an academy by 2022.

The disclosure is potentially contentious as it could show that RSCs are still judged on how many schools they convert into academies, a criterion criticised as a conflict of interests after it was first exposed by Schools Week in 2014.

The Local Government Association said changing the contracts of schools to convert them into academies would still cost «millions» and is calling on the government to drop its plans.

This could include taking schools away from local authority control, converting them into academies - directly funded by central government - and putting them under the leadership of high - achieving head teachers.

Schools deemed unable to improve will face being converted into academies, or rebrokered if the school is already an academy.

Following a consultation at the end of last year, Ofsted will stop ignoring the past ratings of schools that converted into academies but have not been inspected yet when it publishes national data on the state of schools.

Those policies include plans to force schools in poor performing or unviable councils to convert into academies, new performance tables for academy trusts and a reform of alternative provision.

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This week, education secretary Nicky Morgan announced plans to prevent parents from being able to use the law to challenge the decision to convert their local schools into academies.

It revealed that the education secretary Nicky Morgan, planned to stop parents using the law to prevent the government converting their local schools into academies.

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A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reports now in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that it has accomplished the first step toward this goal by converting the CRISPR / Cas9 genome engineering system into a genome surveillance tool.

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Converting primary schools into academies has failed to raise standards, with pupils in primary academies doing no better in Key Stage 2 tests than those at comparable schools, according to a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Converting to academy status gives schools the chance to step away from their local authorities and have more input into how they believe their schools should operate.

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

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 following a number of financial issues that schools in England have been facing, such as the recent announcement of the Treasury taking back # 384 million, which was to be used to convert schools into academies.

Richard Riley, Associate Solicitor in the education team at Slater Heelis LLP explains the legal process of converting a school into an academy and the possible implications that arise once your application has been approved.

The plans have faced widespread criticism from opposition parties and the education profession, with claims that there is no solid proof that converting a school into an academy will improve results and that the changes could lead to lengthy and expensive conversions for already high performing schools.

Further details of the government's plans to convert all primary and secondary school in England into academies have been outlined in the «Educational Excellence Everywhere» white paper.

The aim of the bill is to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» and speed up the process of converting schools into academies.

The burgeoning growth in the number of schools converting to academy status will mean that a large number of new individuals — from business and from the community at large — will be drawn into these schools» governing bodies.

Former Education Secretary David Blunkett has questioned the government's plan to convert every school into an academy by 2020, warning that it is «doomed to fail».

MPs are set to debate the government's plans to convert every school across England into an academy.

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».

In April 2015 he caused controversy by granting permission for neighbouring academies in Redditch, Worcestershire, to convert into two - tier schools, despite concerns that it would «decimate» the town's education system and threaten other local schools.

Ofsted's annual report reveals that of 170 local authority - maintained schools that were languishing at the lowest rating in April last year, when new rules around academy conversion came into force, 65 of which have still not converted to academy status.

It also seems that, after 2010, letting outstanding schools convert into becoming academies was also a good thing.

Nicky Morgan has insisted there will be no retreat on plans to convert every state school in England into an academy, enduring a frosty reception from teachers as she told them the education system was «in much better shape» than five years ago.

That is why in the first 100 days we have brought forward legislation to transform all failing schools into academies and for the first time taken the power to convert coasting schools into academies too.

If the Conservative Government proceeds with its plan to convert all schools in England into academies this begs the question, what happens to all the valuable school land and buildings paid for by taxpayers and largely controlled by local authorities?

TCMAT's four academies — three of which were rated good by Ofsted before they converted in 2013 — were all put into special measures last week.

In September 2002, Boston High School transformed into Boston Community Leadership Academy, becoming the first traditional Boston high school to convert to Pilot school status.

Sir John Gleed School, in Lincolnshire, came to Schools Week's attention during our investigation into inadequate academies which were good or outstanding before converting.

At Woodside Primary School in Dudley, an «academy order was not received until 12 months afterwards» and it did not convert until almost two years after it was first put into special measures.

In particular, ministers will need to explain why it has taken the DfE longer than expected to convert underperforming schools into academies, despite their arguments these schools benefit the most from the change.

This fall, San Diego Unified is following the lead of High Tech High and the Preuss charter schools by boldly converting three of its larger public schools into more than a dozen «charter - like» academies.