Sentences with phrase «local authority schools»
Free school places cost more than those in local authority schools - 50 % more for secondary places and 33 % more at primary level, said the report.
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The statistics are suggest that free schools performed better than other types of schools, such as local authority schools or academies.
So we don't know whether these will be similar to the remaining half, whereas we have results for a large proportion of local authority schools.
However, for most local authority schools and academies, this is a resource they do not have.
A dual system with academies running alongside local authority schools would be less efficient, she said.
The claimant was a former pupil of the defendant local authority school.
For local authority schools, including the majority of primary schools, there will be a two year transition period, in which funding will cease to be distributed through councils.
Birmingham City Council said it would work with Saltley School, the only local authority school placed in special measures, and the Department for Education to install a temporary governing board.
The new framework also sees the inspection process for local authority school improvement functions brought more into line with how Ofsted carries out focused inspections of academy trusts.
SchoolDash created a sample of secondary academies and local authority schools with similar characteristics to see how their exam results compare.
The proposals under consideration by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan owe much to a pamphlet by Policy Exchange, the Conservative - aligned think - tank, which proposes mass - converting the remaining local authority schools into academies.
«A real comparison would be the performance of similar local authority schools which, inexplicably, the report does not do in relation to lower performing schools.»
So, the data available so far does not show whether free schools are more or less popular than equivalent regular new Local Authority schools.
While the response to underachieving local authority schools was to transform them into academies, there is yet to be any formal guidelines instructing what should happen when academies are underperforming.
The government is «not winning the argument on academies» and has no answers for critics of plans to force local authority schools into multi-academy trusts, according to the new president of the National Association of Head Teachers.
With free schools increasingly appearing on local authority school application forms, it could mean some parents who have picked the school for their child end up severely inconvenienced.
An 11 % decrease in exclusions from local authority schools was recorded - there were 26,844 cases in 2010 - 11 compared with 30,211 in 2009 - 10.
Yesterday Paul Carter, Tory leader of Kent County Council, said to the BBC that he was concerned that the Conservatives scheme would deprive local authority schools of resources, but he later issued a statement saying he backed the plans «100 %».
The challenge has raged for some years that the constraints of DfE Building Bulletins upon local authority schools have not needed to be followed by Free Schools.
This will include supporting the creation of new academies and free schools, intervening in failing and coasting local authority schools and recruiting high quality academy sponsors.
According to analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA), local authority schools achieve a higher rate of «good» or «outstanding» rankings than academies.
Funding is an issue across the board, and academies are seen by many as an increasingly attractive alternative to the traditional model, whether they are sponsored academies, or converted local authority schools.
There remains, however, a big rump of schools which remain conventional local authority schools - particularly in the primary phase of education, where the cash incentives to convert were much weaker.
A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council primaries that closed to become sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.
Taking a sample of schools which converted to academy status between 2010 and 2012, there were 3.6 % more pupils achieving five good GCSEs including English and maths than comparable local authority schools.
The EPI report focuses on local authority schools because the data is publicly available.
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.
We know that this means 15 secondary schools are still local authority schools and have been rated as less than good for the whole 10 year period in question — all of which is down to the local authority (unless you can explain otherwise).
In fact Ofsted analysis showed that many academies were performing worse than other local authority schools, while a Sutton Trust report in 2014 warned that they were worse for disadvantaged pupils.
Refining this further based on the statement, the question is something like how do the exam results or Ofsted performance of academies and local authority schools compare?
Local authority school headteachers may not vote.
Many have been struggling in recent years; the latest publication of local authority school income and expenditure reveals that the proportion of schools with a deficit has increased from 6.0 % in 2015 - 16 to 9.1 % in 2016 - 17.
[7] It is a legal requirement for all teachers working in Scottish local authority schools to be registered with GTCS (The Requirements for Teachers (Scotland) Regulations 2005).
The results indicate, for both primary and secondary schools, that there were marginal positive differences in performance between Local Authority schools and «sponsored» and «converter» academies with comparable demographics and starting points.
The statistics report that teacher numbers in local authority schools stand at 51,286, in excess of the target of 51,131.»
Education Secretary Mike Russell said the current number of teachers in local authority schools exceeded the local government agreement target of 51,131.
Research has shown that local authority schools spend slightly more per pupil on running expenses than either SATs or MATs, but that MAT schools spend more on teaching staff, supply staff and support staff.
Powers will be extended to address failing and «coasting» academies as well as local authority schools, with Morgan claiming that underperforming academies should be «held to account».
Lib Dem sources say 30,000 local authority school places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools.
Timo Hannay, founder of SchoolDash, says these schools on average do seem to make greater progress in GCSE results than local authority schools with a similar intake of pupils.
Would a similar effect be observed if a new local authority school had opened in the area, or if an existing school was taken over by a new leadership team (parent - led or otherwise), or there was a new injection of funding, infrastructure, or in - kind support from the Government?
While the response to underachieving local authority schools has been to turn them into academies, there have been questions about the action taken when academies are underperforming.
-- Ofsted to be allowed to inspect academy chains as it does in relation to local authority school improvement functions
Paul Luxemore, executive head of the Coastal Academies Trust which oversees four secondary schools and one primary school, told BBC Radio 5 live: «By arguing that remaining local authority schools should have the choice not to become academies, in effect the NAHT are defending local authorities.
A survey, conducted in March 2018, asked a sample of NEU members in local authority schools and academies to report on the impact of funding cuts to their schools, as already experienced and expected.
Over 80 % of local authority schools are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted — why force them to change?
The regulations are mandatory for local authority schools as well academies set up before 2010 or after June 2014.