Ministers have been accused of dragging their feet over the publication of a key academies document that will reveal
how schools commissioners are judged.
Not exact matches
King said serving as education
commissioner gave him a close - up look at the political process, «which is different from maybe
how I taught it in my high
school civics class.»
Patrick Ryder, Nassau County police
commissioner, explained
how the Rave system will help improve safety in the
schools, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 at Carle Place High
School.
We have changed
how we approach public education and watched unprecedented student achievement gains flow from those changes,» said Neil E. Duke, chair of the Baltimore City Board of
School Commissioners.
This includes: the role of MATs in the context of other intermediate structures operating between Whitehall and individual
schools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and m
schools, including Regional
Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and m
Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual
school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and
how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and managed.
The report recommends that the government «sets out more clearly» the role of national
schools commissioner and
how it relates to the role if the RSCs.
The performance of regional
schools commissioners will be judged by
how many
schools in their areas convert to academy status, despite education secretary Nicky Morgan's public stance that she has no preference for any particular
school type.
Asked
how the KPIs would be used, a spokesperson for the DfE said: «The role of the regional
schools commissioners is to tackle underperformance in academies and free
schools, taking decisions on academy conversions and encouraging strong sponsors into the market to support struggling
schools.
Regional
schools commissioners (RSCs) were introduced in September to strengthen accountability for academies, but it was not known that they would be judged on
how many academies were created in their region.
Nicky Morgan and her team may also look to make changes to
how our whole system is overseen and managed through further development of the regional
schools commissioners.
In an exclusive investigation last year
Schools Week revealed
how Jenny Bexon - Smith,
commissioner for Yorkshire and east Midlands, had written to a
school criticising it for allowing teachers to have discretion over their lesson plans.
The government stopped judging regional
commissioners on
how many
schools in their regions were in need of an academy trust after figures revealed far more sponsors were needed...
«If it is happening on a wider scale, then it casts into doubt the role of
schools commissioners and
how they are accountable for public money.»
For example, we do not know
how the
commissioner's salary will be funded, or
how the
schools will be chosen.
When I first submitted a Freedom of Information request to the DFE on the annual cost of the regional
schools commissioners, I believed the figures would clearly indicate, in the absence of policy announcements,
how the Department for Education saw the
school system would be managed in the future.
The memorandums of understanding (MOU) set out
how Catholic and Church of England
schools, and their dioceses, will work with their regional
school commissioners and the government.
Pupils should be taught in
school how to avoid being sucked into gangs or exploited by older criminals, the children's
commissioner has said.
Powell said there are «clearly questions to answer, for the board and leadership of Bright Tribe» about their «questionable motives towards GM UTC, and about
how the regional
schools commissioner, and ministers have allowed this benign accountability environment to grow».
School leaders are furious that local authorities and regional school commissioners (RSCs) are asking for predicted grades for this year's primary assessments when the government is refusing to provide guidance on how to score
School leaders are furious that local authorities and regional
school commissioners (RSCs) are asking for predicted grades for this year's primary assessments when the government is refusing to provide guidance on how to score
school commissioners (RSCs) are asking for predicted grades for this year's primary assessments when the government is refusing to provide guidance on
how to score them.
At the very least there must be protocols for
how local authorities and regional
schools commissioners must work together in chilfdren's best interests to avoid these regrettable and embarrassing power struggles which bring government into disrepute.
«The Secretary of State must publish the minutes of regional
schools commissioner board meetings and a register of interests, so the public can see
how decisions about our
schools are being made and why,» she said.
«The site is so higgledy - piggledy, but a few years ago I was talking to Frank Green [the former national
schools commissioner] about
how to change things, and he said it's all down to a lick of paint and some imagination.
Robinson, who served as
commissioner of education for the State of Florida and secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Virginia, said the AP report shows
how liberal attitudes on
school reform have shifted following the election of President Donald Trump and his appointment of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
While New York's new
commissioner is clearly far more experienced and far more understanding of
how education consists of intersecting and overlapping stakeholders that policy must consider, her record is no less devoted to the core elements of «reform» — Common Core Standards, standardized testing, use of testing to rank and sort
schools and teachers — than her predecessor's or her new Chancellor's.
As part of Education
Commissioner Dianna Wentzell's «leadership strategies,» designed to urge superintendents to «encourage» parents to have their children take the SBAC test rather than to opt out, the
commissioner called in superintendents from public
school districts across the state to the department's Hartford headquarters for a «training session» on
how effectively to communicate with parents.
The secretary of state must publish the minutes of regional
schools commissioner board meetings and a register of interests, so the public can see
how decisions about our
schools are being made and why.»
The regional
commissioners will be able to impose immediate changes on
how schools are run, such as introducing new behaviour policies or installing new
school governors.
The government will review whether regional
schools commissioners (RSCs) should still be judged on
how many
schools they turn into academies if the new education bill is passed.
A regional
schools commissioner (RSC) has brushed aside any possible conflict of interest after being given new powers to turn «coasting»
school into academies — although he will be judged on
how many
schools he converts.
Officials from the Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSS)-RRB-- the group of state superintendents and
commissioners - and the Council of the Great City
Schools (CGCS) said today that while some testing is needed to see how much kids are learning, many tests are poorly designed, take too much time, don't measure what schools really need to know and can be elim
Schools (CGCS) said today that while some testing is needed to see
how much kids are learning, many tests are poorly designed, take too much time, don't measure what
schools really need to know and can be elim
schools really need to know and can be eliminated.
This entire concept was contained in Section 18 of Malloy's bill and the Legislature's Education Committee correctly changed the language to make the Governor and his
commissioner come back next year with a more detailed plan about
how these
Commissioner Network
schools would work.
Parents could spark a change of academy trust under proposals in the white paper that give them the right to petition regional
schools commissioners if they are not satisfied with
how their
school is run.