The free school has faced strong local opposition - especially from other
local secondary school head teachers - who fear it will take money and pupils from their schools and lead to more segregation in the community.
Not exact matches
He lives on a rough estate, and as he
heads for
secondary school he begins to be targeted by the bullying
local gang members.
primary and
secondary, academy and
local authority, mainstream and specialist; the entire state - funded
school system is rapidly
heading towards insolvency.
«We trust
head teachers to decide what is best for their pupils — including when and how to take part in work experience or work - related learning — and are providing valuable support for them through the Careers and Enterprise Company, which is working with
secondary schools and colleges to support the development of relationships with
local employers.»
A Mathematics teacher who is also
Head of Scholarship is a governor at this
local state
secondary school.
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.
Recently, most
local authorities have been following a policy of reducing the number of principal teachers in
secondary schools by combining departments and having PTs titled «curriculum leaders» or «faculty
heads», who essentially carry out the same responsibilities but over more than one department.