Sentences with phrase «local authority schools do»

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.

Not exact matches

I do hope that teachers will read this book as well as governors, those important people whose powers are being stolen in many Catholic maintained schools by local authority and - dare one say - diocesan bureaucrats.

Michael Gove, Sir Michael Wilshaw (head of Ofsted), the Department of Health, Public Health England, Jamie Oliver, charitable organisations and representatives from all the major school food providers — from private industry to local authority caterers — have agreed to do their bit to increase take - up and create a truly first class school food service.

The regulations do not allow local authorities to make changes to the number of post-16 funded places in maintained schools and PRUs.

«Autonomy doesn't mean that headteachers can run their school free from scrutiny or demanding standards, it means academies can be run without having to second guess advice or interference from local authorities.»

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.

The school did refer the teacher to the local authority and he was arrested following an admission of guilt.»

However, much work needs to be done on the integration of health and social care and the related issue of payment for residential adult social care, as well as the change back to local authority control of school education.

So, the data available so far does not show whether free schools are more or less popular than equivalent regular new Local Authority schools.

In the NUT we believe this is best done in schools which are well supported by local authorities.

He had campaigned actively, participating in candidate forums, doing interviews on local television and radio and joining in calls for the city Housing Authority chairman's resignation and opposition to the way public school student data is being used in a state database.

The governor threatened to hold back on payments to school districts and local governments, a move that his critics said he didn't have the legal authority to do.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

While the standards apply to all local authority maintained schools, academies and free schools set up before 2010 and created from June 2014, they don't apply to academies founded between 2010 and June 2014.

Bringing industries together Andrea Carr, managing director of Rising Stars / Hodder / Galore Park comments: «Our Switched On Computing resources are a great example of how publishing expertise and local authority and school expertise can come together to do something fantastic.

At route of the event is the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with your colleagues from academies, maintained schools, local authorities and education charities across the sector — something that can be done in abundance at the brand new «Central Networking Area».

Whilst the EFA require local authorities to continue to manage these contracts if a school converts to an academy, it is becoming increasingly obvious that some local authorities are struggling to do so effectively with the pressure of funding cuts and the decimation of local authority teams.

Local authorities do not publish systematic data to demonstrate how they are monitoring schools» financial management and that they are intervening where necessary.

In today's economy, school specifiers and local education authorities are bottom line conscious, but surprisingly, not all are choosing the cheapest way of doing things, say many contractors and installers.

However, for most local authority schools and academies, this is a resource they do not have.

Academisation «does not automatically raise standards» and many local authority run schools are outperforming academies, according to new research published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

The high court upheld the state school board's ultimate authority to overrule a local district's rejection of a charter application, saying the provision in the state's charter law did not violate the state constitution.

A coordinated, international analysis of existing strategies and support mechanisms can shed light on what schools can do in the difficult struggle to assure students» safety at school, and what national and local authorities can do to support schools in this effort.

Not only do they create competing local school authorities, but they also open alternative opportunities for the participation in school governance that the courts have proclaimed to be the normative value at the core of local autonomy.

According to the children's charity, «despite the duty on local authorities to provide education to every child, significant numbers drop off the school roll and do not receive an education at home either».

Kojonup District High Sschool, highly commended in the 2013 Waste Authority Infinity Awards, is a great example of what regional schools can do and has become a terrific role model for its community, recently featuring in an educational DVD on best practice recycling sponsored by their local recycling depot.

«As a Committee dedicated to promoting social justice, we are committed to examining these issues in our inquiry and pressing government, local authorities, schools and others to do all they can to improve educational outcomes and life chances.

The construction industry is well aware of its existence, and arguably all that local authorities, schools partnerships and free schools management teams need to do is make it a requirement for their new build or refurbishment projects.

Local authorities, also expecting their massive investment to work «out of the box», are surprised to find that school and academy buildings are unfinished at occupation and full of technologies and controls that don't work very well and that no - one understands.

There are also things schools and local authorities can do now to make sure that children are getting the most from PSE including working with young people to co-design and engage them in the learning process.»

Chris Cook, education correspondent for the Financial Times, recently covered the issue, reporting that while conventional schools can call on their local authorities for help, academies do not have access to council funds and, in some cases, maybe denied access to advice and guidance.

The research involved surveying 1,100 school leaders, the results of which suggested that 82 per cent of mainstream schools in England do not have sufficient funding to adequately provide for pupils with SEND; 89 per cent of school leaders believe cuts to local authority services have had a detrimental impact on the support their school receives for pupils with SEND; three - quarters of schools have pupils who have been waiting longer than expected for assessment of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan; and 88 per cent of school leaders think initial teacher training does not adequately prepare teachers to support pupils with SEND.

They said:» Where local authorities identify the need for a new school they are required by law to invite proposals to run a new free school and then forward these to the department to decide who would be best placed to do this.

She notes that local authorities report that fair access protocols typically work well and do much to support timely admission to school.

It will also change how schools do business — and how organisations, including local authorities, need to approach doing business with them.

For schools that don't have a kitchen or inadequate kitchen facilities, Linda suggested that: «Schools should contact their local authority to find out what funding is available and if they are able to receive any of the capital fund made available by the Department for Eduschools that don't have a kitchen or inadequate kitchen facilities, Linda suggested that: «Schools should contact their local authority to find out what funding is available and if they are able to receive any of the capital fund made available by the Department for EduSchools should contact their local authority to find out what funding is available and if they are able to receive any of the capital fund made available by the Department for Education.

But questions over whether schools will receive their cash directly from Government — as academies do — or through local authorities, remain unanswered.

Over the last 20 years, England didn't abolish its «local education authorities» — Blighty's version of school districts — but it conferred so much autonomy on individual schools and their boards of governors that it essentially marginalized those authorities.

Our NSBA bill would enhance local school board authority while ensuring that the U.S. Department of Education does not overstep its authority.

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.

Why do states now have the right to usurp local authority to open charters run by nonprofit and for - profit charter chains even if they aren't quality schools?

A good local authority knows far better than the distant secretary of state, or the new Regional Schools Comissioners, which schools should — given their intake and local circumstances — be doing Schools Comissioners, which schools should — given their intake and local circumstances — be doing schools should — given their intake and local circumstances — be doing better.

The NUT believes that the solution to the school place crisis is to give local authorities back the legal powers they need to plan and provide enough school places in their local areas and for the Government to provide sufficient funding to enable them to do so.

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.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

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?

But the most recent document does not confirm this commitment, merely stating that «schools must play their part, and work in collaboration with AP providers and local authorities, to take more responsibility» for excluded pupils.

Sponsored academies are schools that have been «taken over» because they were not deemed to be doing well enough under local education authority influence.

Small academy trusts just «don't have the balance sheet of the local authority», meaning that they should choose carefully which schools they take on.

Also, many local authorities don't have the capacity or desire to run new schools.