Accountability: If all schools were put
into academy trusts, operating across many different parts of the country, how will individual schools remain accountable to parents and their local community?
Almost every investigation
into academy trusts by the Education Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) over the past four years has been prompted by a whistleblower.
Now, let me get this straight, you're complaining that they're putting TOO MUCH money
into their academy trusts?
However Martin, chair of governors at Durand Academy Trust (DAT) and also its former executive head, said the government had approved the contract, which he says enables millions of pounds in profit to be pumped back
into the academy trust.
Durand Education Trust (DET) is facing new scrutiny after the Charity Commission announced today it is to open a statutory inquiry
into the academy trust.
Not exact matches
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.
When schools become
academies, the legal responsibility for maintaining the school (both in physical terms and in relation to funding) passes to the academy trust with whom the Secretary of State has entered into «academy arrangements» (pursuant to the Academies A
academies, the legal responsibility for maintaining the school (both in physical terms and in relation to funding) passes to the
academy trust with whom the Secretary of State has entered
into «
academy arrangements» (pursuant to the
Academies A
Academies Act 2010).
Furthermore, the report says that existing independent
academies are being increasingly forced
into «arranged - marriages» with larger Multi-Academy
Trusts (MATs) as an act of preservation and to generate economies of scale.
Nicky Morgan has also released information concerning a second financial injection
into the education sector, pledging over # 4 billion worth of allocations to schools, local authorities,
academy trusts and voluntary aided partnerships.
This will mean, together with the other trustees and governing body members, determining the strategic direction of the
academy trust and its
academies (where relevant), and also being responsible for turning policy aspirations
into reality.
Police reviewed information relating to the collapsed
academy trust after the leader of Wakefield Council called for an investigation
into WCAT's finances.
Despite these funding pressures, the department is not doing enough to identify
academy trusts that are at risk of getting
into financial difficulty, the report states.
The education select committee questioned three of the country's regional schools commissioners (RSC) to give evidence
into an inquiry
into multi
academy trusts.
Whether we like it or not, it appears that more and more schools will become «married» as part of a Multi
Academy Trust in the years ahead; leaving behind their relative independence (and the varying quality of parenting provided by different Local Authorities) in order to enter
into an often polygamous lifelong partnership with other schools.
The delegated limits for
academy trusts, to write - off debts or enter
into liabilities, are subject to a ceiling of # 250,000.
Trusts are now placed into four tiers depending on size: Starter trusts, multi ‑ academy trusts (MATs) with up to five academies, all of which are in the same region; Established trusts, MATs with between six and 15 academies in the same region; Regional trusts, MATs with between 16 and 30 academies, which operate across regions; and System trusts, MATs with over 30 academies which may be located across the co
Trusts are now placed
into four tiers depending on size: Starter
trusts, multi ‑ academy trusts (MATs) with up to five academies, all of which are in the same region; Established trusts, MATs with between six and 15 academies in the same region; Regional trusts, MATs with between 16 and 30 academies, which operate across regions; and System trusts, MATs with over 30 academies which may be located across the co
trusts, multi ‑
academy trusts (MATs) with up to five academies, all of which are in the same region; Established trusts, MATs with between six and 15 academies in the same region; Regional trusts, MATs with between 16 and 30 academies, which operate across regions; and System trusts, MATs with over 30 academies which may be located across the co
trusts (MATs) with up to five
academies, all of which are in the same region; Established
trusts, MATs with between six and 15 academies in the same region; Regional trusts, MATs with between 16 and 30 academies, which operate across regions; and System trusts, MATs with over 30 academies which may be located across the co
trusts, MATs with between six and 15
academies in the same region; Regional
trusts, MATs with between 16 and 30 academies, which operate across regions; and System trusts, MATs with over 30 academies which may be located across the co
trusts, MATs with between 16 and 30
academies, which operate across regions; and System
trusts, MATs with over 30 academies which may be located across the co
trusts, MATs with over 30
academies which may be located across the country.
Schools and
academy trusts are not making the most of the millions of pounds they pay
into the apprenticeship levy, over a year on from its introduction.
The
trust was praised by Ofsted in only the third focused inspection
into an
academy chain in July.
The School has entered
into collaboration with the Levels
Academy Trust, comprising four primary schools in the Langport area.
It had been widely established across the education community that
trusts such as E-act and the
Academies Enterprise
Trust (AET) ran
into difficulties because they expanded too quickly in their early years.
In its response to the parliamentary education committee's recent inquiry
into the work of
academy trusts, the DfE said the move to release
trust performance measures in this manner was made «based on feedback from users and to accommodate new performance measures».
The government has also disputed claims that the quality of MATs» provision is not fairly evaluated, as debate continues
into whether Ofsted should be allowed to inspect
academy trusts.
Schools Week recently reported that schools and
academy trusts are not making the most of the millions of pounds they pay
into the apprenticeship levy, over a year after it was introduced.
Overall, 165 schools passed from one
academy trust to another last year, although many of those were in single -
academy trusts that were «consolidated»
into multi-
academy trusts.
It follows Ofsted's first focused inspection
into an
academy chain last month, which found Oasis Community Learning
Trust had a «legacy of weak challenge».
To kick off the first term of 2017 - 18, Schools Week has delved
into the data on
academy trust expansion over the last year.
Barnfield
Academy Trust has also been released this week from its notice to improve, which had also been issued in February last year to the Moorlands Free School
Trust and Barnfield Skills
Academy Trust, which have now all merged
into one.
But the watchdog says the chief executive of the
academy trust had mistakenly been copied
into an email with an inspection schedule.
From 6 April 2016, new company ownership rules came
into force, which will affect some
academy trusts.
An investigation
into a «top - performing»
academy trust given government cash to drive up standards in northern schools has revealed it breached rules over payments to trustees — but...
Other chains that have bought
into the project include Oasis, through Oasis South Bank
academy, and the Dixons
trust, through Dixons Trinity
academy.
The
trust was put on the Department for Education's «pause list» in 2012 — meaning it was not allowed to take on new schools — after running
into trouble after it expanded quickly in the early years of the
academy programme.
The BBC reported today that # 384 million originally earmarked for converting failing schools
into academies and developing multi-academy
trusts has been taken back by treasury officials.
Later that year, the government removed the requirement for
academy trusts to consult parents over plans to forcibly convert failing schools
into academies.
I understand asset stripping as being the process of selling off the assets of a company (in this case the
academy trust) and extracting the proceeds
into the pockets of the investors leaving behind an empty shell company with debts that will collapse.
The education secretary has been accused of «hiding» a financial investigation
into a controversial
academy trust run by the government's former free schools director.
«The DfE must now produce a list of other high - risk
academy trusts and send a high - level investigation team
into each one to identify risks and propose remedies to prevent similar situations arising.»
Whatever happened at WCAT (and again, I am NOT defending them) I haven't seen any allegations that these reserves came out of the
academy trust and
into the pockets of individuals connected with WCAT (I stand to be proved wrong though).
Those policies include plans to force schools in poor performing or unviable councils to convert
into academies, new performance tables for
academy trusts and a reform of alternative provision.
Based on the success of the first Phalen Leadership
Academy, Phalen was awarded an Innovation School Fellowship from The Mind
Trust, through which he took leadership of one of IPS» persistently low - performing schools and partnered with the district and The Mind
Trust to transform the school
into the state's first Innovation Network School.
Academies Enterprise
Trust (AET) and the CfBT Schools
Trust (CST) are both on the government's «pause list» — meaning they can not sponsor new schools — after running
into trouble following quick expansion in the early years of the
academy programme.
The EPI research, commissioned by the Ambition School Leadership charity, also reveals that one of the most vulnerable groups of pupils — those with special needs — do not make it
into leading
academy trusts in such large numbers.
A second inquiry
into the Perry Beeches
academy trust, which runs five schools in Birmingham, has revealed breaches in the rules over a donation to the Labour Party and payments to the company of the wife of one of the
trust's directors.
Sixth - form colleges should not rush
into partnerships with schools to create all - through
academy trusts, a sector leader has warned.
He has received numerous awards and accolades, including a 1984 Diadem Architects Centenary Award, a 1994 Villiers David Award, a 2004 Royal Scottish
Academy Sir William Gillies Bequest Award, a 2005 Carnegie
Trust Award for the Universities of Scotland, and was inducted
into the Royal Scottish
Academy in 2010.
Selected Exhibitions 2009 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, For Real, group exhibit 2008 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, What Remains: The American Landscape Portfolio Edition, solo exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Trees of Life, 30th Anniversary Show, group exhibit 2007 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, What Remains: The American Landscape, solo exhibit 2006 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, 28th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibit 2005 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC,
Into the Minds of Nine, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, La vie quotidienne: Scenes from Paris to Provence, solo exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 22nd Annual Portrait Show 2004 Land
Trust of Virginia, Middleburg, VA, Vanishing Landscapes 2004, group exhibit Parker Gallery, Washington, DC, Beyond Brittany: 1977 - 1979, group exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 21st Annual Portrait Show Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Zenith Style: Art & Craft for Home & Office, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, group exhibit 2003 Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda, Inside & Out, House & Home, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Near and Far: Recent Landscape Paintings, solo exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 20th Annual Portrait Show 2002 Land
Trust of Virginia, Middleburg, VA, Vanishing Landscapes Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, The Dog Days of Summer Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, New Artists... New Space, Summer Show 2002 2002 Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, IL, Oil Painters of America, Eleventh Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 19th Annual Portrait Show 2001 National Park
Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria, VA, Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Area Artists Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Oil Painters of America, Tenth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 18th Annual Portrait Show 2000 National Park
Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, DC, Studio 310 Reunion Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 17th Annual Portrait Show Spectrum Gallery, Washington, DC, Spectrum Plus Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Zenith Gallery at 22 1999 National Park
Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour, recipient of the Steven L. Aschenbrenner Collector's Award Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, New Works for the Millenium Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 16th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1998 Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, VA, Lightmotifs, solo exhibit Mystic Maritime Gallery, Mystic, CT, 19th Annual International Marine Art Exhibition Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 15th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1997 Arts Club of Washington, Washington DC, Luminous Journeys, solo exhibit Ballantyne & Douglass Fine Art Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR, featured artist The Artists» Museum, Washington, DC Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 14th Annual Portrait Show Morgan Peyton Fine Arts, Charleston, WVA, Journeys through the Virginias, solo exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit Howard / Mandville Gallery, Edmonds, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1996 Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Pleasures of the Garden Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 13th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Edmonds, WA, 2nd Annual Paintings of the American Landscape Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA, Landscapes Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, 15th Anniversary Celebration Charles County Community College, La Plata, MD, Landscapes, solo exhibit 1995 Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, Landscapes 1994 Hollis Taggart Gallery, Washington, DC, Portraits Montgomery County College, Rockville, MD, George Washington Faculty Exhibit DeMatteis Gallery, Annapolis MD, The Figure Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Portraiture, co-curator 1993 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1992 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1991 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1989 Plum Gallery, Kensington, MD, Capital Image 1989 Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, National Portrait Exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1988 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Images of Georgetown, A Bicentennial Celebration 1986 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Alumni Juried Exhibition 1985 Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA, Washington Landscapes Plum Gallery, Kensington, MD, The Capitol Image Today 1985 The Times Journal Co., Springfield, VA, In and Around Washington 1984 St. Petersburg Historical Society, St. Petersburg, FL 1984 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Alumni Juried Exhibition Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD, Metro Art Fairfax County Council of the Arts, Fairfax, VA, juried exhibit curated by Michael Botwinick, director, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC World Bank Art Society, Washington, DC 1983 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Areawide Painting Exhibition, juried by Frederick Brandt, curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA American Artists Professional League, New York, NY, Juried Grand National Exhibition Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA