Sentences with phrase «local authority school improvement»

In response to a query from me on behalf of NCOGS he said:»... we want to ensure that the schools system continues to benefit from the expertise of the best people in local authority teams and it recognises that there is some very effective practice within local authority school improvement teams and we expect that the strongest people in them may establish new academy trusts or take up positions within existing ones.

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He also questions how local authorities can be expected to meet their statutory obligations regarding children's education if they are stripped of powers relating to school planning and improvement.

In 2008/2009 the Welsh Government made a grant available so local authorities could apply for funding for projects to bring innovations and improvements to school transport.

In the letter, national secretary Philippa Childs welcomes the government's announcement of # 50m a year for local authorities to continue to monitor and commission school improvement for low - performing maintained schools, and -LSB-...]

He has wide and extensive experience as a teacher and headteacher and a local education authority school improvement adviser.

At the center is the National Strategies Group for school improvement (about 300 staff members); at each of the nine regions are regional strategies group; in each of the 150 local authorities are the local authority strategies group; and then at each school there is a team made up of the headmaster, parents, teachers and local business leaders.

Responding to Wilshaw's comments, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «In order to guarantee that any improvements are sustainable and felt across the city, local school leaders need to be able to rely on the local authority, the DfE [Department for Education] and the Regional Schools Commissioner to back them up.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

SchoolDash also claimed that there was «no evidence» that academy status brought improvements to the schools or that the academies were any better that their local authority counterparts.

The support includes a series of «Train The Trainer» courses which will give local authority or academy trust staff the training, skill and expertise to deliver the Children's Food Trust's Small Step Improvement programme» to eligible schools in their area.

«However, the need for action in those limited circumstances is clear, because of the considerable risk to the standard of education that young people in those schools receive, as the local authority is either unable to guarantee their continued success or support further improvement.»

Ofsted has also inspected 10 local authorities following concerns over their school improvement arrangements.

She said the need for action in the «limited circumstances» is clear because of the «considerable risk to the standard of education that young people in those schools receive, as the local authority is either unable to guarantee their continued success or support further improvement».

Working as school improvement advisor and consultant headteacher for a local authority with responsibility for school leadership across the authority

He left headship in 2014 to be involved full - time in school improvement, working with a range of schools including special and independent schools, as well as undertaking local authority work in Solihull.

If the combined budget of these schools is not large enough for the local authority to top slice a sufficient amount to fund its improvement services, then it could be classed as unviable.

When a local authority consistently fails to meet a minimum performance threshold across its schools, demonstrating an inability to bring about meaningful school improvement.

For example, the cost to a Local Authority of converting a school to an Academy is between # 2,500 and # 20,000 * without considering any financial deficits the Authority may retain and money spent on school improvement services in the time taken to conversion.

Ofsted's annual report shows more than a third of sponsored academies, both primary and secondary, are currently rated as requiring improvement, a higher proportion than local authority schools.

Much will change in practice and policy as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaces the law, regulations, and guidance established through NCLB; but two elements of the new legislation stand out: the shift away from federal mandates toward greater state and local authority, and the emphasis on evidence - based school improvement practices.

Many schools wanted local authorities to remain players in school improvement.

For commissioners to be effective in delivering school improvement they must improve relationships with schools, communities, local authorities and Ofsted, says the report.

Soulbury - paid officers are specialist, professional local authority officers providing strategic support to schools in areas such as school improvement and educational psychology.

Six secondary schools were already academies and outside local authority supervision when Ofsted criticised Blackpool's school improvement.

This is precisely the sort of problem Ofsted ran into when it tried to do school improvement, and is the sort of conflict that local authorities were accused of when politicians pushed the academy model in the first place.

It's # 140 million available to local authorities, multi-academy trusts and Teaching School Alliances, to address local school improvement priorSchool Alliances, to address local school improvement priorschool improvement priorities.

In the same week, chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said that every school should be compelled to federate to speed up improvement, organised by either local authorities or the new regional commissioners.

But increasingly local authorities don't have the resources to continue supporting school improvement anyway, in spite of their ongoing responsibilities.

However, with local government funding cuts it would be difficult to fully handle the role suggested especially with the cut of the ESG funds for local authority's role in school improvement

«He has experience of senior leadership role in a primary school and as a school governance consultant and trainer for the local authority, delivering a range of training programmes on school performance and school improvement themes.

Her most recent appointment is a two - day - a-week secondment to her school's local authority to work on school improvement across all schools.

In August next year, the government also intends the commissioners to take over from local authorities the job of supporting school improvement and intervening in failing schools.

«We need to create a coalition of Welsh Government, local education authorities and regional consortia who are in charge of school improvement and we also must work with headteachers, teachers in the classroom and parents».

The continued policy of making condition improvement fund money available only to academies means that not only are local authorities crumbling away, their school buildings are too.

However it praised school improvement services in local authorities and the provision for children with additional learning needs.

That would involve limiting the independence of free schools from local education authorities by bringing in new national guidelines to allow municipalities to «integrate independent schools in their planning, improvement and support strategies».

Many individual school inspection reports cite good support from the local authority to secure school improvement and improved outcomes.

The Blackpool Challenge replaces the local authority's school improvement board and brings together the area's school leaders, council representatives and the RSC to share best practice and bring about rapid improvement.»

End the role of local authorities as school improvement partners when the evidence demonstrates just how effective many of them are — with 86 % of local authority maintained schools rated good or outstanding;

Wide - ranging, strategic knowledge and extensive experience in education support services and school improvement; including advising schools and local authorities on how to achieve sustainable budgets and secure value for money in the use of resources.

There are evident parallels with the push for total academisation and the removal of the local authority role in school improvement.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

# 53million is just 10 % of what local authorities used to receive to deliver school improvement.

It's madness to have hundreds of small MATs replicating legal, IT, payroll, school improvement and other functions when those functions already exist within much more efficient and arguably more effective (when you look at the data on performance of maintained schools versus academies) local authorities.

He said the improvement was down to London Challenge - there was the «political will» to make schools better, adding that London Challenge bypassed local authorities.

through recommendations from your local authority or school improvement consultants in your region

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