Sentences with phrase «millions opening free schools»

But shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the policy continued «to waste millions opening free schools in areas that do not need them».

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Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

In May Richmond Council approved two Voluntary Aided (VA) Catholic schools to open outside of competition, arguing that the schools (which have cost it # 10 million) are not «needed» — only «wanted» or «desired», and therefore there was no need to seek Free School proposals.

But he has faced criticism after some free schools slated to open this week failed over the summer, including the One in a Million free school in Bradford, which abandoned its plans for 2012 last week.

16 April 2017 Commenting on NUT research which reveals that the Government wasted # 138.5 million of taxpayers» money on 62 free schools, UTCs and studio schools which have either closed, partially closed or failed to open at all, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

This also included grants of # 350,000 for every new specialist maths free school that opens across the country over the next few years, and # 27 million in funding to extend the «teaching for mastery» maths programme to a further 3,000 schools.

Some 332 free schools that opened in the four years to 2016 - 17 have been funded on the basis of the number of pupils they expected to recruit, but # 41.4 million of these payments has had to be «clawed back» from schools which had over-predicted, of which only # 31.5 m has yet been recovered.

According to my figures, the Government has already wasted over # 60 million on 14 «Free» schools, Studio Schools or UTCs which opened briefly and then schools, Studio Schools or UTCs which opened briefly and then Schools or UTCs which opened briefly and then closed.

When the current wave of approvals are fully open, free schools will have 175,000 places, in a school system of 8.3 million pupils.

The DfE also had to cancel the Harperbury free school, due to open in Hertfordshire, despite having already spent # 1.9 million on it.

Four years ago, legal costs were much higher: publicly available data on free school spending showed costs of up to # 30 million per month, but open release of this data stopped in April 2014.