Sentences with phrase «local education authorities»

Other concerns include what will happen to the community role that used to be performed by local education authorities in relation to badly - behaved pupils or pupils with special educational needs.

He has forgotten the role of local education authorities in those days, often a force for innovation and an important counter balance to central government and special interests.

The growth of free schools, in particular academies, means that employer responsibilities are being transferred from local education authorities to the governors and heads of individual schools.

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.

He said that nearly 30 % of children were enrolled in free schools and academies, and simply returning to the old local education authorities was not an option.

The schools were in five local education authority areas with varying degrees of relative deprivation.

Local education authorities used to ensure a «national system, locally delivered».

What's more, 15 local education authorities reported a 50 per cent increase in stress - related absence.

All of this additional data will give schools and local education authorities important information to make more specific changes to improve student outcomes.

I am not talking about federal standards for every subject taught in American public schools, nor am I proposing that state and local education authorities lose all say on curriculum.

The bill to revise the law will allow local education authorities to exceed the statutory limits, but it still doesn't include any additional funds to hire more teachers.

The code of practice advises local education authorities, maintained schools, early education settings and others on carrying out statutory duties for children's special educational needs.

We are going to make it easier by making sure that statements (of special needs) are not provided by local education authorities, they are provided by someone separate.

Free schools work outside of local education authority control and receive money directly from the government.

Annual reports have shown the funding gap between local education authorities in Wales and England to have grown over the years.

After its election the Government put this requirement on a statutory footing: Clause 1 of the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from September 2002.

The evaluation has focused on teacher professionalism and investigated how Save the Children has worked together with local education authorities and community bodies such as parent associations, child protection committees and children to improve teacher professionalism through training, supervision, support and monitoring.

The MP for Reading West also questioned plans, announced by education secretary Ruth Kelly last month, to give local education authorities (LEAs) a more strategic and less hands - on role.

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

The government accepted a general increase of 3.5 per cent in January 2002, along with amendments to the Upper pay scale, but did not fund it completely, leaving local education authorities to make up the difference and resulting in heavy council tax increases.

«Labour will reassert its support for local accountability through Local Education Authorities and school governor boards accountable to local communities and local authorities and will return Free Schools and Academies to LEA oversight.»

City residents send their children to schools in neighbouring Local Education Authorities, such as Islington, Tower Hamlets, Westminster and Southwark.

This target was imposed upon Local Education Authorities, which are required to draw up detailed class size plans and to restrict admissions or increase teaching capacity at particular schools to enable the targets to be met.

If this is not reason enough for restoring local education authorities to full working capacity and ensuring schools return to localised control then I am not sure what is.

She has worked in senior positions in local education authorities across the country, according to a profile on politics.co.uk.

On the other side, local residents opposed to the district's action this semester in moving sixth - graders to Alfred G. Berner Middle School cited the audit as support of their contention that local education authorities act in a high - handed manner.

«Monmouthshire Local Education Authority department also recognise the importance of this and make sure that the schools are aware of this element of the risk assessment when booking trips abroad.»

«Education Corporations» will supplant Local Education Authorities to dominate the space: Academy chains are groups of institutions that are bound together legally, financially and operationally.

The selected Local Education Authorities (LEA), the rough equivalent of an American school district, tended to have low test scores and high social disadvantage.

Modular buildings in record time To expand their school facilities quickly and cost - effectively local education authorities are turning increasingly to factory built, modular construction.

«Fusion21 members accessing this framework — including local education authorities, academies, colleges and universities — will benefit from significant efficiency savings and social value, and will gain quality modular buildings which are compliant with all building regulations and present lower carbon emissions than traditional builds.»

Previously a school principal, local education authority inspector and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, his work focuses on ways of making school systems effective for all children and young people.

The frameworks were designed in association with Cornwall Learning (previously Cornwall Local Education Authority) to replace the system of levels and give schools a new «ladder of progression» for the core subjects.

To the extent that state and local education authorities adopt grade retention policies, well - crafted formulation and prudent implementation are keys to both legal defensibility and community acceptance.

In 1965, the government ordered local education authorities to start phasing out grammar schools and secondary moderns, and replace them with a comprehensive system.

Glass, who is the MP for North West Durham and a former senior local education authority worker, most recently served as shadow Europe minister in Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench team.

Local Education Authorities answerable to local voters are the right bodies to manage local education systems as set out by the 1945 Education Act, the wisdom of which becomes ever more evident as successive Academy scandals and DfE failures to regulate them accumulate.

Those questions are difficult to answer on a statewide basis when North Carolina's local education authorities differ so greatly in needs.

I would address the marginalisation of local government in education — good local education authorities had much to contribute, not least the support and advice of teacher colleagues.

Many local education authorities provide SEN courses for teachers working in the field.

Our client have a solid background of delivering into local education authorities and academies as well as the public sector in general, and have been a specialist UK provider within education leadership for over 10 years.

Southampton was the first local education authority in England to formally place emotional literacy among the top priorities of its strategic development plan.

Critics, including Professor Jonathan Tritter, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Aston University, warn this weakens the democratic leverage once enjoyed by local education authorities as democratic guarantors of the wider public interest.

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».

They are funded directly by the government and run independently of local education authorities.