Sentences with phrase «maintaining school conversions»

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In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.

We are committed to ensuring the same rights are accorded to parents and the same protections afforded to grammar schools on conversion as they have enjoyed while the school was a maintained school.

Similarly, as soon as school is deemed «inadequate» and is eligible for rebrokerage, the school's information could be uploaded to the platform, which would also give maintained schools considering academy conversion the option to voluntarily upload their information.

The note makes clear that this includes cooperation with governing bodies of maintained schools who are being encouraged to seek academy conversion.

The National Audit Office (NAO), the government's spending watchdog, has released a report into the academy conversion process of maintained schools.

In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results.

Ofsted's annual report reveals that of 170 local authority - maintained schools that were languishing at the lowest rating in April last year, when new rules around academy conversion came into force, 65 of which have still not converted to academy status.

Under the academies scheme, when council - maintained schools choose to convert, local authorities have to pick up the tab for the costs of conversion including the cost of any deficit and legal fees.

Rates of conversion of maintained schools into academies tended to be lowest in the north and in London.

In the March 2016 white paper «Educational Excellence Everywhere», the Department for Education stated that «by the end of 2020, all remaining maintained schools will be academies or in the process of conversion», and «local authorities will no longer maintain any schools».

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education, said: «There is evidence to suggest becoming an academy can mean better results for pupils, but only among schools that were LEA - maintained prior to conversion.

«In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.

Eight RSCs were appointed last summer by the Department for Education and have delegated powers to approve the conversion of maintained schools into academies, issue warning notices and rule on expanding or reducing intakes.

All remaining maintained schools will be academies or in the process of conversion.»

But he insisted conversion would happen by LA - maintained schools realising the benefits of academy status and making the leap on their own.