Sentences with phrase «free schools in areas»

The Conservatives» answer could well be to build more free schools in areas experiencing an influx of children.

Revd Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer said: «At a national level we are committed to supporting dioceses in their bids for more new Free Schools in areas of need, which has always been our rationale.

Meg Hillier, the Labour MP who chairs the parliamentary public accounts committee, accused the government of «choosing to open new free schools in areas which do not need them and are failing to fill places».

We're looking to open new mainstream free schools in areas that currently have the lowest standards and need additional school places.

But shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the policy continued «to waste millions opening free schools in areas that do not need them».

Damian Hinds, the education secretary, pledged to lift the cap — which prevents free schools in areas with a shortage of places from admitting more than 50 per cent of pupils on the basis of faith — in an interview with The Sunday Times last week.

The job of regional schools commissioners is to oversee academies and free schools in their areas, doing a job similar to that of local authorities for council - run schools.

«Instead of focusing on the need for more primary school places, David Cameron's government has spent # 241m on free schools in areas that already have enough school places,» said shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

More than a quarter of all spending on school buildings - # 241m out of # 950m - has been on free schools in areas with no need for extra places forecast, the report says.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt blamed the Conservatives for spending «hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on a few free schools in areas where there are no shortages of places».

Labour's Tristram Hunt blamed the government for «ploughing hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on free schools in areas where there are no shortages of school places».

We have seen # 250 million wasted on providing free schools in areas they are not needed.

As part of the new role, Clark will be responsible for overseeing the growth of academies in the region and will monitor the performance of 800 academies and free schools in areas including Bristol, Swindon and Cornwall.

It can not make sense for the government to continue to prioritise money for new free schools in areas with surplus school places when we have more than 100,000 primary pupils being taught in classes of more than 30.»

The charity also called for the introduction of more free schools in areas of low standards to give parents more control over their children's education.

There were also concerns over the lack of bids to open primary free schools in areas where more places for youngsters were desperately needed.

«There is a severe shortage of school places, yet this Government is sanctioning the opening of free schools in areas where there is no demand for additional places and eating up scarce funding in the process.

And Conference, we won't pay for new free schools in areas where there are excess school places, while parents in other areas are struggling to get their children into a local school,

Lib Dems say the money is now being spent on free schools in areas where there is not a supply issue for school places.

Draper added that new free schools must be located where there was a need for school places, «not just at the whim of a group that want to build a free school in an area where there is already capacity».

Their analysis showed that opening a new free school in an area helps to drive up standards in both primary and secondary underperforming schools nearby, particularly in higher poverty schools and schools that are under capacity.

Keen not to lose work, and indeed even keener to generate income, most, if not all Local Authorities will be willing to provide a fully managed bureau service for the Academies and Free Schools in that area.

We have seen # 250m wasted on providing free school in areas that are not needed.

Councillor Imogen Walker, deputy leader of Lambeth Council, said: «We want every child in Lambeth to have the best education possible and a near - empty free school in an area that already has adequate provision will not help that aim in any way.»

Search for open free schools in your area or find out more about what free schools in different areas of England are doing.

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«The Prime Minister spoke this month in support of more free schools opening, particularly in areas of social and economic deprivation.

Schools in the Brighton area will be enjoying a Meat Free Monday throughout the spring term, thanks to support for the campaign from county hall.

I also love that they use coconut flour which is way cheaper than the almond flour that a lot of grain free / paleo recipes use and coconut flour is also safe to send to school in my area (most schools are nut free around here.)

My wife and I went to public schools in the Chicago area for 12 years and were never offered a free lunch.

That's an appealing idea on its face, but it's important to remember that schools in economically depressed areas can offer free, in - class breakfast and also qualify for the newly expanded federal after - school snack program.

In partnership with Chicago Public Schools, the company offers free tickets to more than 5,000 Chicago - area low - income students each season.

The area represents the highest concentration of poverty in our district and these students typically qualify for a free, nutritious lunch during the school year.

Healthy, organic, tasty, and waste - free lunches delivered to children at schools and daycare centers in the greater Seattle area.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification raFree Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rafree meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rafree meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

To remedy this problem, some districts, particularly those in large urban areas, have adopted universal, in - class breakfast programs whereby all students are able to obtain and eat a free breakfast in their classrooms at the start of the school day.

Perhaps your child does sit down every evening in a distraction - free area and focuses on their school work, only an assignment that should 10 minutes actually takes 40 minutes.

Churches in your area usually work together to help kids get free school supplies.

As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

The bipartisan Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 mandated that the USDA set guidelines for what needed to be included in local school wellness policies in areas such as setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity, informing parents about content of the policy and implementation, and periodically assessing progress and sharing updates as appropriate.

Creative, healthy, local, waste - free lunches are delivered to children at their school or daycare center in the greater Seattle area by Midnight Kitchen's Lunchbox Leverage.

- With primary school places in short supply in many parts of the country, and parents struggling to get their children into a local school, can it really be a priority to open more free schools in 2015 and 2016 in areas with excess secondary school places?

Policy achievements — such as the pupil premium, free school meals, the increase in the tax allowance and so on — tend to be in micro areas of public policy that are invisible to most voters.

its a pretty appalling bill, but Yvette Coopers just said, that we should have money spent on state schools, in areas where there's no free schools, is this a concession that there'll be here to stay under her if she wins and we win the election?

Clegg's comments come as his party claimed to have reined in Gove's desire to allow his free schools programme to become profit - making, and that any new wave of free schools had to be in deprived areas.

He told this programme: «To say you can have a new school and then cut the spending for other schools in that area - it's not a free lunch.

Cuomo previously announced that free state fair tickets would be distributed in the Maine - Endwell Central School District and at six Express Mart stores in the area.

The programme has targeted areas according to measures of relative disadvantage including the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), free school meals and the proportion of children under four in households receiving income related benefits.

Riani, a retired teacher from the Syracuse area, gives a portion of her free time teaching students in the Plattsburgh City School District, primarily Momot Elementary.

Most of the budget for new schools has been spent, and yet only 19 % of secondary places in free schools have so far opened in areas «that had forecast a high or severe need for extra places», according to the report.