Sentences with phrase «first local education authority»

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First, because age and education are the biggest demographic correlates of referendum vote choice, we have weighted the YouGov respondents in each local authority so that their age and education profile matches that for that council as measured by the 2011 Census.

It will be chaired by deputy first minister John Swinney, and bring together young people, education leaders and representatives from local authorities and the teaching profession.

«We want as many schools as possible to take advantage of the significant benefits academy status brings because it means more schools run by great heads and teachers, not local authority or Whitehall bureaucrats, and more children getting a first - class education.

She regretted parents who could not get their first choice but said part of the issue with Cardiff High was a shift in choices parents made between faith and Welsh medium education and local education authority (LEA) places.

Press Association analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data, shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 %) saw a drop in the proportion of pupils given their first choice of secondary school, compared with the year before, while 68 authorities (45 %) saw a fall in the percentage given one of their overall preferences.

Responding to AMs» questions on the report in January, First Minister Carwyn Jones said the Welsh government was now offering education a «clear way forward», but conceded that there had been a «blurring of the lines of accountability, in terms of leadership in schools [and] in terms of leadership in local education authorities» previously.

First off, Senator Ernst makes it known that she supports shifting education accountability to local or regional authorities.

The commission makes 100 recommendations featuring six overarching ones: the National Advice and Legal Support Fund mentioned before; prioritising public legal education in schools, alongside financial literacy, and in «education for life»; calling on government to clampdown down «preventable demand» by getting decisions right the first time including a «polluter pays» scheme for the DWP to pay costs on upheld appeals (on average 35 % of appeals against welfare benefits decisions are upheld); an overhaul of the courts to make them better suited for the needs of litigants in person; a national strategy for 2015 — 20, including a «minister for advice and legal support»; and for local authorities to commission local advice and legal support plans.

Efforts of Indigenous leaders and educators to acquire the authority for the education of their children have contributed to federal and provincial legislation that formalizes the local jurisdiction of education for First Nations communities.