Sentences with phrase «creating more school places»
How can the free schools programme meet the twin challenge of creating more school places and improving educational standards?
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In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.
And teachers should be given much more of a role in creating school policy in the first place.
«Look at the free schools and academies that are bringing in diverse providers to create more excellent school places and getting some of the best results at GCSE.
«Today's announcement shows that we will not waver in pressing ahead with our plans to open 500 more of these innovative and exciting schools over the next five years, creating 270,000 places, delivering an excellent education and giving parents across the country real choice for their children.»
Education Secretary Justine Greening announced this week that more than 130 new free schools had been approved by the government, creating around 69,000 places for pupils.
What is more, the majority of these institutions are in the secondary phase, creating serious surplus capacity when there is a crying need for more primary school places.
A further 22 free schools have been will soon be open - creating 18,000 more school places across the country, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has announced.
Lib Dem sources claim 30,000 local authority places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools, but aides to Mr Gove say more school places are being created overall.
No more free schools will be created where there is a surplus of school places;
Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.
The 18 new schools are expected to create more than 9,000 places across the UK, bringing the total of places at free schools to 236,000.
The Department for Education (DfE) has approved applications for 131 new schools which will create more than 69,000 places.
«This consultation asks how we can create more great school places in more parts of the country — including selective places for local areas that want them — and asks our independent schools, universities and faith schools to play their part in improving the quality of our state - funded schools.»
«The proposals we are putting forward go considerably further than some of the ideas the green paper suggested and by helping create more good school places, both in state and independent schools, we would be helping to expand real social mobility in this country.»
It has been estimated that more than 250,000 new school places will have to be created nationally by 2014/15 which will have a huge impact on education facilities across the country.
The Department for Education (DfE) has said that local authorities have plans to create 52,000 more secondary school places by 2018, with # 7 billion is committed to new places.
The funding was announced yesterday by education secretary Justine Greening, and aims to support the government's mission to create more the 600,000 extra school places by 2021.
More than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their childMore than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their childmore schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their childmore choice for their children.
Many teachers are excited about the ability to create a group on Facebook as a private way of interacting with their students in ways that a) not only meet the students where they already are and integrate their lives into the classroom more holistically, but also b) shows that school can be a lot cooler than the students thought by being on Facebook in the first place.
From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.
Nash added: «With 29 per cent of free schools inspected rated «outstanding» by Ofsted - LocatED will play a vital role in helping us create thousands more good and outstanding school places for future generations of children.»
Schools have a vital part to play in our fight against knife crime by creating a safe, positive place for students, spotting danger signs and spreading the message that carrying a knife is more likely to ruin your life than save it.»
«Not only will funding be misdirected, but the National Audit Office (NAO) found that it costs far more to create a place in a free school that it does a mainstream school.»
More than 30,000 new school places have been created across England as the number of free schools opened since 2011 passes 500.
Education secretary Justine Greening is calling for closer working between independent and state schools to create more good school places.
«We are raising standards across the country so that every child can go to a good school where they are taught the knowledge and skills they need for future success and we're investing # 5.8 billion to create even more good school places.
States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.
Essex County Council has announced plans to invest # 85 million in creating more than 400 new special school places across the county.
MORE SPACE IN BRISTOL In 2012, Bristol City Council commissioned a range of permanent and interim classroom solutions to create an additional 630 primary places in 12 schools across the city.
Thousands of schools places will be created after plans for more than 100 new free schools are given the green light.
Restorative practices help make schools safer and more caring places, creating pathways to opportunity and success instead of pipelines to incarceration and violence.
He added that «with 29 per cent of free schools inspected rated «outstanding» by Ofsted - LocatED will play a vital role in helping us create thousands more good and outstanding school places for future generations of children».
The new schools will create more than 1,100 high - quality school places for children with multiple learning needs, including children with autism and mental health needs.
Plans for 131 new schools have been approved by the Department for Education today, creating more than 69,000 school places up and down the country.
This funding will transform the condition of school buildings and help our best schools to expand, creating more good school places for families and raising standards for pupils.
De Blasio has called for a moratorium on creating more charters, and an end to the rent - free deals for well - off charter schools that are already in place.
Rocketship has probably done more than any other single place to create the market for «hybrid schools.»
This lab — and the larger plan for the school surrounding it — has probably done more than any other single place to create enthusiasm for «hybrid schools.»
These will bring the total number of free school places created since 2010 to more than 236,000 - making this policy the most successful new schools programme, with schools being created more quickly than ever before.
More than one hundred low - performing schools were placed under the jurisdiction of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD), which was created in 2003 to take over and reverse the fortunes of chronically disappointing public schools throughout the state.
«[Free schools] are creating more good school places for our children.
The government's commitment to open 500 free schools over the next 5 years will create 270,000 school places across the country - giving parents more choice while challenging existing schools to up their game.
«However we know more needs to be done, that's why we will now invest a further # 23bn in school buildings up to 2021, creating 500 new schools in the next five years and 600,000 new school places.»
The government has committed to opening 500 more free schools in this Parliament, creating good school places in communities across the country.
Today's announcement shows that we will not waver in pressing ahead with our plans to open 500 more of these innovative and exciting schools over the next 5 years, creating 270,000 places, delivering an excellent education and giving parents across the country real choice for their children.
The Department for Education says it has invested «more than # 5bn to create more than 445,000 new school places».
A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our proposals are about creating more choice, with more good school places for more parents in more parts of the country.
He signalled that Labour would end the expansion of free schools and adopt a more strategically planned approach to creating new places for a rising population.
Education Secretary Michael Gove argues that allowing good schools to expand will create more good school places, and so increase choice.