Sentences with phrase «leaders of academy status»

The principal advantages to school leaders of academy status are that they are exempt from the national curriculum and the national pay regulations for teachers.

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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging challenges and makes 14 recommendations for the U.S. government and other stakeholders to address these challenges, while maintaining U.S. status as a world leader in global health.

Teachers, leaders, governors and bursars, from schools, academies and MAT all left the show with more understanding of the possibilities that academy status can achieve.

The report said: «The reality is that the increased freedoms are not nearly as substantial as is often suggested, but many school leaders feel a general sense of liberation with academy status: it provides a sense of «grown up» responsibility and agency, and «permission'to innovate.»

New research by the Sutton Trust shows that nearly half of academy leaders in England believe autonomy associated with their status has either had «no effect or a negative impact» in the classroom.

Thirty per cent of academy senior leaders who took part in a poll on the additional autonomy that comes from academy status said it had «no effect» at all in the classroom, while 18 per cent said it had a negative impact.

Among staff working in schools without academy status, only 10 per cent of senior leaders and seven per cent of teachers think the extra autonomy has a beneficial effect in the classroom.

Concerns about the implications of the Act may lead some school leaders or governors of maintained schools to consider «jumping before they are pushed» into academy status.

Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Time and again reports are released which show that academy status has no direct link with good outcomes for young people.

Mary Bousted, leader of the ATL teachers» union, said the report showed: «Academy status is no magic potion to transform schools.»

She entered Chicago Academy High School as part of the New Schools for New Leaders Program, and helped move this school to Level 1 status.