Sentences with phrase «free school failure»

Responsibility for school failure is a heavy price to pay for a volunteer whose reputation may be damaged within the local community and further afield: academy and free school failures make great front page news — especially in cases of financial mis - management.

Not exact matches

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.&raFree Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.&rafree for all.»

Most damagingly for Gove, some of the failures of the school directly correlate to concerns raised about free schools by new Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

Several free schools, including spectacular early failures, have been faith - based.

This coupled with the failure and closure of many free schools have costed the taxpayer millions and had a detrimental effect on children's education.

Recent high - profile failures at Al - Madinah School and Kings Science Academy demonstrate the DfE and the EFA's oversight arrangements for free schools are not yet working effectively to ensure public money is used properly.

Mr Gove also told Andrew Marr he was now operating a «tighter inspection regime» for both free schools and local authority schools, and the test would be the «speed with which you deal with failure».

Education Secretary Michael Gove has admitted to problems with some free schools but said the failures were now being dealt with.

We find no basis for the allegations made by the CRP authors, who argue that charter - school enrollment growth, based on the free choices of mostly minority families, represents a «civil rights failure.»

As the United States Supreme Court noted in its recent Forest Grove School District decision, pursuing private placement through the legal system is ««ponderous» and therefore inadequate to ensure that a school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.&School District decision, pursuing private placement through the legal system is ««ponderous» and therefore inadequate to ensure that a school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.&school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.»

In a statement released this afternoon, Ms Morgan said: «We will not tolerate failure in our schools and it is one of the great strengths of the free school programme that we can identify and deal with it quickly in a way that is not possible in all schools.

It is one of the great strengths of the free school programme that we can identify and deal with failure quickly, in a way that is not possible in all schools.»

«The Ofsted report into Durham Free School reveals that children are being let down by a catalogue of failures.

States must agree to meet Duncan's requirements in order to free themselves from the original dumb requirements: adopt the Common Core standards, participate in a test - development consortium to create Common Core tests, tie teacher and administrator evaluations to test scores, develop a new way to humiliate schools — that is, a new accountability system to replace the old «failure to meet AYP» label — and use that system to fire teachers and close schools.

«Under - performance at any school is unacceptable and one of the many strengths of the free school programme is that we can identify and intervene quickly wherever we find failure.

Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister, also criticised the failure of some local authorities — Portsmouth and Bracknell Forest — to send a single child on free school meals to top universities.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has admitted «things have gone wrong» with some free schools but said failure was now being dealt with.

If students on any path were free to access specialist teaching in other institutions, many of the issues relating to the consequences of Raising the Participation Age (RPA)-- such as colleges accusing schools of rejecting GCSE «failures» and the challenge faced by further education teachers to deliver results in GCSE English and maths effectively — could be significantly reduced.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has admitted to problems with some free schools but said the failures were now being dealt with.

Schools must be accountable to communities, this is the only way we can avoid the academic and governance failures and school closures that have characterised the free schools programme tSchools must be accountable to communities, this is the only way we can avoid the academic and governance failures and school closures that have characterised the free schools programme tschools programme to date.

Responding to Mr Hunt's more recent comments, the schools minister David Laws said that the government had taken «swift action» to deal with failings at the Al - Madinah free school told MPs that no school would be allowed to «languish in failure».

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said children at Durham Free School were being «let down by a catalogue of failures» with no «imminent prospect of improvement».

Head of the NAO Amyas Morse said: «The programme's success and value for money ultimately depend on how free schools perform but lessons must be learned systematically from the problems that have arisen in a few of the early wave schools, especially where these have revealed failures in governance and control.»

Before the election David Cameron pledged to open 500 more over the next Parliament but high - profile failures, such as Durham Free School and Discovery New School, were both closed within an academic year.

After prominent failures in Hartford, Conn., and Baltimore, private management companies have begun to focus more on charter schools, which usually are freed from many of the regulatory restraints that most public schools have to follow.

The report argues that failures in governance and poor financial stewardship at a few free schools indicate that «oversight arrangements are not yet working effectively enough to make sure public money is used properly».

One of the strengths of the free schools programme is that when we spot failure we can take far swifter action than would happen in other schools.

Also, the fact that if you're poor, the ONLY option for free, public schooling is to enroll your child in a system that has been a failure for the majority of it's existence, is not fair.

This battle isn't about Clark School's failure... it is about closing a Hartford public school so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atSchool's failure... it is about closing a Hartford public school so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool — and a free school building atschool building at that.

Ms Morgan has said previously: «We will not tolerate failure in our schools and it is one of the great strengths of the free school programme that we can identify and deal with it quickly in a way that is not possible in all schools.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), with the help of pro bono partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, brought these cases to court, challenging the New York City Department of Education's (DOE) failure to provide free breakfast and lunch to children with disabilities who would ordinarily be entitled to receive meals in school.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), with the help of pro bono partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, brought these cases to court, challenging the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) failure to provide free breakfast and lunch to children with disabilities who would ordinarily be entitled to receive meals in school, but who had to attend special education private schools because the DOE did not offer them an appropriate public school education.

Public charter schools are open to all students — tuition free — and are designed to improve learning, particularly for students at risk of academic failure.

(Apart from cronyism, nepotism, failing free schools, fraudulent use of public funds, headteachers punishing children for their parents» failure to pay dinner money.....)

But given her fact - free jeremiads against implementing Common Core reading and math standards, neither her claptrap against Teach For America nor silence about the failure of ed schools is shocking.

Two other aspects of the case are Cooper Union's tax exemption, which is based on the school providing tuition - free education, and the Board's failure to seek cy pres relief.

The employee, a teacher with the Coquitlam School District, filed a complaint with the Tribunal alleging that her employer's failure to provide a scent - free work environment amounted to discrimination on the basis of physical disability, contrary to British Columbia's Human Rights Code.