The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors
limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.
Not exact matches
The
Academy has not supported controversial nutrition policies that might upset corporate
sponsors, such as
limits on soft drink sizes, soda taxes, or GMO labels;
Schools complained about
limited communication from the RSCs, and are often told they will transfer to new
academy sponsors but then hear nothing more.
The
limited nature of the
sponsor pool, together with an inefficient (and competitively stagnant) brokering system for matching schools in need of assistance with viable
sponsors, have also resulted in the untenable situation in which almost half of the
sponsored academies that have had an inspection post-intervention are themselves rated «inadequate» or «requiring improvement».