Sentences with phrase «into sponsored academies»

Ahead of the National Primary School Offer Day new figures reveal that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies - where education experts and leading headteachers take over the running of the school.

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.

The research found that converting schools into sponsored academies may rise standards in the year after they are converted, but this improvement dissipates over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school became an academy.

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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.

An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.

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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.

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.

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.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

If inadequate schools have long been eligible for conversion, and the DfE hasn't explicitly committed to turning all of them into academies, perhaps because it can not find enough good sponsors for them all.

There are wide variations within the academy category, with sponsored academies, which are forced into academy status after poor Ofsted ratings, predictably faring worse than converter academies, which must be rated good or outstanding before being allowed to convert.

Despite the setback, the DfE said it expected the rate of academy conversions to increase, bolstered by the Education and Adoption Act that came into force in March, giving the department extra powers to intervene in «coasting» schools and have them taken over by academy sponsors.

Those that can improve will be supported to do so by our team of expert heads, and those that can not will be turned into academies under the leadership of our expert school sponsors - one of the best ways of improving underperforming schools.

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.

These findings raise questions about the strategy of turning coasting schools into academies under the leadership of school sponsors.

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