Sentences with phrase «local authority schools spend»

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.

Not exact matches

It is sixty years since I became a Catholic; five of those years were spent in schools staffed by secular priests and religious, another four in approved schools staffed by laity and with Catholic chaplains; two years were spent in a local authority approved school and thirty years in prisons and the courts as a senior probation officer.

The spending review says: «Local authorities in England hold # 225 billion of assets, including over # 60 billion in property not used for schools or housing.

The savage cuts to local authority spending and the decision by the Coalition Government to end ring - fenced funding for the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant is having a major adverse impact on the help schools can give to ethnic minority pupils, the research has shown.

«He also announced that schools spending will be allocated in a «fairer way» so that the lowest funded local authorities will receive an increase in their per pupil funding through a new national funding formula.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

However, the underlying reasons for conversion are the same: more opportunity to realise better educational outcomes, independence from a local authority, greater flexibility in the organisation of the school and how it chooses to spend its funding.

Refurbishment projects tend to make up 50 per cent of a local authority's funding under the government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme — so it's important that these huge sums of money are spent wisely and effectively.

Other local authorities are carving up their levy and allocating that back out to individual business units or schools and saying that is all they can spend.

Councils had to spend more than # 22m covering the costs of schools converting to academy status in the last two years, even though they are moving free from local authority control and are funded from Whitehall.

Extra revenue received via the ESG (Education Services Grant) can be spent on much - needed resources, which a local authority school would not have previously been able to afford.

Referred to as «Austerity Schools» by some, the plans aim to reduce the cost of new school buildings by 30 per cent and will help local authorities cut capital spending.

The data shows the funding for nursery schools fell by # 232 per pupil last year and local authority spending on education and young people's services is down # 0.7 billion from 2015 - 16.

In that context, I am confirming that in 2017 to 2018 no local authority will see a reduction from their 2016 to 2017 funding (adjusted to reflect authorities» most recent spending patterns) on the schools block of the dedicated schools grant (per pupil funding) or the high needs block (cash amount).»

However, massively reduced funds mean that some schools need to apply to local authorities for funds they previously managed themselves, which may result in long periods spent waiting for a suitable solution to be implemented.

California's groundbreaking new school funding formula increases resources for students, especially those from low - income families, English learners, and foster youth and provides more local authority over spending, allowing communities to make decisions suited to local needs.

«Local authorities are having a cash crisis over SEND and if they can expand the range of units attached to mainstream then there's a chance that they can reduce the amount they spend on transport to special schools that are further away.»

This will be a tough planning challenge for national and local government, against a background of spending constraints and growing numbers of schools moving outside of local education authority control.

an arrangement with your local authority or school where they hold the money for you but you still decide how to spend it (sometimes called «notional arrangements»)

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.

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.»

When MATs are compared to SATs and Local Authorities (LAs) in terms of financial efficiencies, research has shown that LA schools spend slightly more per pupil on running expenses than both SATs and MATs, but MAT schools spend more on teaching staff, supply staff and support staff.

Primary schools in multi-academy trusts spend # 23 more on teaching staff per pupil than local authority schools, according to a new report from the Education Policy Institute.

Schools in multi-academy trusts spend less on «back office» costs and more on primary teaching staff, compared to standalone academies and local authority sSchools in multi-academy trusts spend less on «back office» costs and more on primary teaching staff, compared to standalone academies and local authority schoolsschools.

Some # 27m was spent on opening schools in temporary premises and # 80m was handed to local authorities for pupils who later moved into free schools - it was not recovered.

This will consist of # 569 million (1.8 per cent of the school block budget) and for the first year of the new formula will be based on historic spend and given to local authorities to dish out.

The new legislation, introduced by Republican Sen. Mark Wyland of Escondido but likely to enjoy the support of many Democrats, could signal a showdown with Gov. Jerry Brown, who vetoed similar legislation last year because it infringed on a key premise of his Local Control Funding Formula — allowing local educational agencies the bulk of authority over school spending decisLocal Control Funding Formula — allowing local educational agencies the bulk of authority over school spending decislocal educational agencies the bulk of authority over school spending decisions.

Capital funding is the funding schools and local authorities spend on their buildings and facilities.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We are giving local authorities # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament - double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

He added: «Investment in free schools comes on top of the # 5bn we are giving to local authorities to spend on basic need.

Although today's announcement does not include additional funding, it is understood officials hope clarity on spending — particularly the allocation of local authority funding for 2019 - 20, several years ahead of time — will help schools and councils plan ahead.

Arne Duncan, the federal secretary of education, urged state and local authorities to avoid short - sighted decisions as they cut school budgets, and said laying off teachers based solely on seniority was «a wrong way to cut spending.»

Brown's Local Control Funding Formula flipped authority over spending billions of dollars in state education money — most of it targeting disadvantaged students — from Sacramento to local school boLocal Control Funding Formula flipped authority over spending billions of dollars in state education money — most of it targeting disadvantaged students — from Sacramento to local school bolocal school boards.

«In that context, I am confirming that in 2017 - 18 no local authority will see a reduction from their 2016 - 17 funding (adjusted to reflect authorities» most recent spending patterns) on the schools block of the dedicated schools grant (per pupil funding) or the high needs block (cash amount).

«I am confirming that in 2017 - 18 no local authority will see a reduction from their 2016 - 17 funding (adjusted to reflect authorities» most recent spending patterns) on the schools block of the dedicated schools grant (per pupil funding) or the high needs block (cash amount).»

Where are the new homes being built for the influx of people wanting to live in these communities, where are the schools that need to expand to cater for the increased number of students, where's the extra Rates being brought in by Local Authorities being spent — on swimming pools, sealing roads and footpaths, providing a free community bus, well set up Doctors Surgeries encouraging Doctors to their communities, provision of free local bus services forLocal Authorities being spent — on swimming pools, sealing roads and footpaths, providing a free community bus, well set up Doctors Surgeries encouraging Doctors to their communities, provision of free local bus services forlocal bus services for all.

How schools and local authorities spent their funding on education, children's services and social care in the financial year 2016 to 2017.