Sentences with phrase «local authority control»

As a type of academy operating outside of local authority control, free schools act as their own admissions authority.
Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.
The academies programme that started in 2000 also freed schools from local authority control and gave them greater autonomy over their finances.
Meanwhile, there are said to be 44 schools under local authority control which have been in «special measures» for at least 18 months.
Good, free education for all, under democratic local authority control; student grants not fees.
Local authorities have a responsibility to ensure enough places - but the government has a «presumption» that new schools should be free schools or academies, outside of local authority control.
Since schools have moved away from local authority control and are making their own purchasing decisions many are potentially missing out on the discounts negotiated by the authority.
Free schools, both primary and secondary, are set up by academy sponsors, charities, teachers and groups of parents, and operate outside local authority control.
More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown.
Sunesis Oakfield Primary School is the first school to have benefited from a suite of new standardised designs called Sunesis, developed by Willmott Dixon and local authority controlled company Scape.
Of the 26 maintained mainstream schools under local authority control in the area, seven have a predicted deficit by the end of this academic year, 10 are predicting one the end of 2018 - 19, and 12 by 2019 - 20.
Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.
Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.
This has come about through the transfer of these powers from local authorities; however this relinquishing of local authority control comes with added risk.
A national spread without a local hub is also best avoided: there is no point in escaping local authority control and ending up with something just as expensive with no local knowledge or commitment.
Local authorities control admissions for the majority of England's 21,000 state schools - but many, including faith schools, grammar schools, foundation schools and independent academies - set their own policies.
Labour argued the changes would benefit more privileged neighbourhoods and that the best schools would suck in the best teachers and resources, leaving those left under local authority control regarded as second best.
Party members overwhelmingly passed a motion opposing plans to create more academies and free schools, which are free from local authority control.
Free schools are able to vary pay and conditions of teachers, breakaway from the national curriculum, are funded by central government and exist out of local authority control.
Local authority controlled company Scape believes standardisation is the way forward.
The government said the PAC recognised the success of academies, which operate outside local authority control.
The plans outline that every school will be in the process of being converted into an academy by 2020, with no schools remaining under local authority control by 2022.
The census of the school workforce, taken in November 2012, reveals differences in pay between academy schools and those schools still under local authority control.
The report also seemed to vindicate concerns about cutting schools off from local authority control.
While many are now academies, these schools were given independence from local authority control.
We believe that our academy and free school reforms will empower schools and teachers by freeing them from local authority control and government interference to do what they do best - educate.
Another letter to the paper, from Jane Eades, Chair of Anti Academies Alliance, said: «Is this a promise that he will stop plans to open academies in areas where parents and teachers oppose the plans, returning schools to local authority control?
In the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schools.
Now he is recreating what are virtually Grant Maintained Schools, relabelled Trust Schools, largely free of Local Authority control and extending that status to all schools as John Major promised; he is restoring patient choice, recreating independent NHS hospitals as Foundation Hospitals, reviving GP Fundholding relabelled as Practice Based Commissioning and reintroducing an internal market in the NHS.
Speaking at the opening of one of the first new «free» schools — set up by parents, teachers, faith groups, charities and others outside of local authority control — he will say that the country had been «bogged down in a great debate» for too long about how to provide that first - class education.
Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.
When that school was under local authority control two years ago, thirty - one percent of pupils got five good passes at GCSE including English and Maths.
The Harris Academy in Peckham has increased the number of students getting five good GCSEs — from 12 percent when it was under local authority control to almost 90 percent now.
• Scrap university tuition fees, promote comprehensive system of local schools offering mixed ability teaching; bring academies and free schools back into the local authority control.
There was a mention of academies being returned to local authority control, suggesting Labour would now oppose them as official policy.
She also said she supported more frees schools being set up outside of local authority control and she pledged «radical devolution of power» to towns and cities in England.
The education secretary has been criticised in some quarters for the way that free schools operate independently of local authority control, potentially opening them up to abuse by Christian or Islamic benefactors.
Free schools are tax payer funded, free from local authority control and are run by teachers, parents and community groups.
If there is no successful opposition, then the policies to renationalise rail, bring schools back under local authority control, or whatever are irrelevant.
And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.
But only one of the schools in each place is maintained by local authorities — the remaining schools in Birmingham are academies and independent Muslim schools in Tower Hamlets, outside of local authority control.
More successful local schools will be tasked with running the academies as they move out of local authority control.
Gove relished the job and set about separating schools from local authority control.
It creates the first of a new wave of academy schools, free from local authority control, and also paves the way for parents, charities and other organisations to set up controversial Swedish - style «free schools».
The government promised to provide all children with «access to the kind of education only the rich can afford» when it launched the policy of allowing parents to set up schools free from local authority control.
But he said he felt there was a risk that freeing such schools from local authority control would lead to a lack of strategic planning.
The Swanage School is independently run and outside local authority control but funded by the government.
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