Sentences with phrase «for academy sponsors»

Although due - diligence tests are carried out on prospective trustees and leaders for academy sponsors, the Department for Education does not carry out its own checks to ensure that trustees and senior leaders are «fit and proper persons».

Reform recommends a more holistic approach to commissioning, where funding agreements for academy sponsors include a section on pupil outcomes in addition to assurances on financial propriety.

Not exact matches

For example, this year's Academy Awards corporate sponsors included Rolex, Swarovski, and Walmart — all brands with deep enough pockets to buy their way into Hollywood's biggest night.

Edmiston is the sponsor of three secondary schools within the English academy programme, and is chair of governors for all three academies.

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are pleased to announce the VIEWERS CHOICE Winners for the 8th Annual TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are pleased to announce the nominees for the 9th Annual honors, and for the category, for

With high school basketball becoming so popular with shoe sponsors like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Under Armour, etc, I won't be surprised if Van Komen goes to a prolific prep academy next year for his senior year.

In April 2006 Des Smith, a head teacher who helped find sponsors for the government's flagship city academies programme, was arrested and questioned.

Health, The LGBTQ Community Center, National Association for Mental Health Harlem Chapter, Fierce, Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters School, NYC Council Member Ritchie Torres, and sponsors Essentials 608 Restaurant and Lounge, Metro Click Kiosks, and Spotco Theatrical Design and Advertisement.

According to NFER «the differences in school GCSE performance between sponsored academies that have been open for between two and four years and a group of similar maintained schools were generally small and mostly not statistically significant.»

However, the NASUWT suggested that the government's proposal for new academy schools to become exempt charities was «a naked attempt to provide a further tax loophole for private sponsors.»

The agency's Healthy Relationship Training Academy sponsors workshops on dating violence for adolescents and young adults, Palacio said, while the city's Family Justice Centers offer free and confidential legal and social services victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sex trafficking, regardless of immigration status.

COMPETES codified many of the recommendations of the 2005 National Academies report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, including to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA - E) to sponsor «creative, out - of - the - box, transformational» energy research.

Lori started as the director of the Science Alliance, an international career - development program for graduate students and postdocs sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences.

His story was the inspiration for the panel discussion «Crazy or Brilliant: Betting on High - Risk, High - Reward Science,» sponsored by DISCOVER and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences.

She is an inaugural member of the World Academy ofYoung Scientist (WAYS), an organization sponsored by UNESCO and The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

The Cancer Research Institute, the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy, the European Academy of Tumor Immunology, and the American Association for Cancer Research will join forces to sponsor the first International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York, Sept..

Leaders from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on February 26 presented exciting updates on the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative in a congressional briefing sponsored by the American Brain Coalition, the American Academy of Neurology, and the Society for Neuroscience in cooperation with the

Berman faculty have led or served on committees of the National Academy of medicine related to human and to animal research and led work for the National Cancer Institute creating model national guidance on informed consent; Berman faculty have served on multiple Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for federally and privately funded trials including the recent NIH sponsored ebola trials.

Though she first kept her psoriasis under wraps, today Rimes is a spokesperson for StopHiding.org, a campaign sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology and the National Psoriasis Foundation.

I had the amazing opportunity to put together an article for sponsor, Onnit's magazine, Onnit Academy.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for data protection officer with oasis community learning, one of the largest academy sponsors in the uk.

The Department should reinforce and consistently apply tests of financial risk and due diligence to all academies and trustees, building on those used for prospective sponsors.

The report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.

One chief executive told Reform they felt their chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or academies requiring sponsors.

Returning to the show this year, we have the FASNA sponsored MAT Summit, providing a unique insight into governance and best - practice and available funding for Multi Academy Trusts.

The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an academy chain sponsor will provide its academies with additional services, such as hiring executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

In a statement, the DfE said: «As more schools choose to convert to academy status and struggling schools become academies with the support of a strong sponsor, it is important RSCs have the right resources to build system capacity and hold schools to account for their performance.

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

The commissioning of academies is currently undertaken by two separate bodies: the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which is an executive agency of the DfE responsible for funding schools, and the Schools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy sponsors.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municipality.

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

* 15 — Accountability: National Conference on Adequate Yearly Progress: Progress and Challenges, sponsored by the Academy for Educational Development, for K - 12 administrators, teachers, and education policy makers, at the AED Conference Center in Washington.Contact: Ashley Carlton or Mairin Brady, Washington Partners, 1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20005; [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.WPLLC.net.

The academy conversion model (initially common in schools in special measures, known as «sponsor» academies) is now chosen by many good / outstanding schools (known as «convertor» academies) as it turns a school into an independent business (not for profit) that receives funding directly from central government instead of a local authority.

Provision for art and design is increasingly influenced by school type, and most worryingly academy sponsors have been the biggest reduction in time for the subject.

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.

The resources are suitable for all staff at any type of school, school governors, parents, government, local authority, free school, and academy sponsors.

23 - 27 — Professional development: «Total Quality Transformation: Train - the - Trainer,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Calif..

18 - 19 — Professional development: «The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: The «Principle - Centered» Approach to Quality Schools,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for superintendents, central - office administrators, board members, principals, teachers, and parents, to be held at the Mills House Hotel in Charleston, S.C. Contact: A.A.S.A. - N.A.S.E., 1801 North Moore St., Arlington, Va. 22209 - 9988; [phone]; fax: [phone].

23 - 28 — Curriculum and instruction: «Curriculum Development Academy,» sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, for teams of secondary educators chosen by application to A.S.C.D., to be held in Geneseo, N.Y. Application deadine: April 1.

16 - 17, 17 - 18 — Outcome - based education: Conference on quality schools, sponsored by the National Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 at the...

8 - 9 — Professional development: Workshops on a variety of subjects, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for all educators, to be held in New Orleans, La..

«North Yorkshire County Council supports the application from Heathfield Academy Trust, which already sponsors a number of schools near Catterick and who the DfE identified as a potential sponsor for the new school in Catterick.

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.

Academy development & partnerships The Academy Partnership Award, sponsored by ESPO, went to Baxter College and H.E.L.P. Habberley Educational Learning Partnership (H.E.L.P.) arose from the demise of the Building Schools for the Future initiative.

Instead, legislation requires the academy's sponsor to communicate plans for improvement to the parents of registered pupils at the school — and in reality this is likely to be joint effort.

The Department for Education (DfE) has claimed that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies.

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.

Deng, a player for the Miami Heat, sponsor's the Evelyn Grace Academy's basketball academy while Ronnie Barker, England's most capped player, is theAcademy's basketball academy while Ronnie Barker, England's most capped player, is theacademy while Ronnie Barker, England's most capped player, is the coach.