Sentences with phrase «need for new school places»

The decision on whether to approve the opening of a free school is determined centrally by the Education Secretary with scant regard for local views, the degree of need for new school places, and precious little transparency over the process.
They note that while free schools are helping to meet the need for new school places in some areas, they are creating spare capacity in others, in some cases 20 % over what is needed.

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As school districts roll out these changes, they should expect lower contributions from parent organizations and put scaffolding in place for both: Teacher who rely on that outside money, and those parents who want to fundraise but need to come up with new funding methods.
If the council had not voted in favor of the one - year, $ 35 million contract Tuesday, the city would have needed to find a new vendor on an emergency basis to have a meal provider in place for the start of the school year.
School districts are thinking about school foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunchSchool districts are thinking about school foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunchschool foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunch tray.
Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.
In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.
Most of the budget for new schools has been spent, and yet only 19 % of secondary places in free schools have so far opened in areas «that had forecast a high or severe need for extra places», according to the report.
«We have to bring it back to a local level, rebuild the family of education, require local authorities to oversee and provide supplementary resources to schools and allow them to build new schools to meet the need for more places.
And we've seen incredible sums ploughed into pet projects - more than # 100 million spent on installing elected police commissioners — money that could have paid for 3,000 new police constables - # 600 million added to the free schools budget in November — money that could pay for the extra 100,000 primary school places we so desperately need - and # 1.8 billion set aside for the costs of NHS reorganisation — half of which would keep 6,000 nurses in post for three years
MIDTOWN — The city could be forced to shell out nearly $ 44 million in private school tuition after failing to place thousands of kindergarten students with special needs in public schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.
For the new schools I go to the schools because in my mind I would need to place where the students are coming from, and then so I don't go to 125 schools, but I go to the new, I make an attempt to go to the new schools and interview the students there.
I'm a bit of an old - school gentleman, a quite driven online marketeer, a hobby long - distance runner and a wannabe space - time traveller... but most importantly I'm a simple man who enjoys simple things, like travelling, reading, watching a movie, eating out or even cooking for my lady, etc.. I really love visiting new places, gaining new experiences, learning different things, and all I really need right now is a lovely female companion to have all these adventures with.
Paul Weitz's movie «Admission,» one distributed by Focus Features which itself is highly selective of movies it buys, takes place in an around Princeton, New Jersey and could serve as a product placement for the school, as if Princeton really needs the advertising!
The new school, backed by Trinity High School and Manchester Metropolitan University, will have an open admissions policy and provide much - needed additional places for the City's fast - growing high school populschool, backed by Trinity High School and Manchester Metropolitan University, will have an open admissions policy and provide much - needed additional places for the City's fast - growing high school populSchool and Manchester Metropolitan University, will have an open admissions policy and provide much - needed additional places for the City's fast - growing high school populschool population.
Parliamentary under secretary of state for the school system, Lord Nash, commented: «The 52 new schools will provide much - needed places and encourage innovation, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»
Draper added that new free schools must be located where there was a need for school places, «not just at the whim of a group that want to build a free school in an area where there is already capacity».
«Councils will also need a greater role in judging and approving applications for new schools to make sure they're appropriate for communities, and will need to be able to place vulnerable children in the schools that can offer them the best support.»
It is often said that the best changes are «bottom up», in this case however the change will need to be «top down» with a lot of support in the form of critical friends for schools, to set in place systemic demands that override extant belief systems to give the new system a chance to prove its worth.
Successful school expansions Having identified a need for more primary places in east and central Hertford based on forecast demand and projections from the Office of National Statistics 2011 census, Hertfordshire County Council looked at numerous sites and existing primary schools to see where new places could be best delivered.
In our view, school systems themselves should determine what training their new recruits need and the best places for them to get it.
Here is a template given from Essex LEA and filled in by myself and collegues in school showing how the new EYFS will be implemented throughout the learning without needed to change any plans that are currently in place, these docs have been done for 8 areas of learning which we thought important.
She explains this distinctive outlook in detail in her new book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts, and offers a set of invaluable principles and tools for advocates already working hard to secure art's place in education.
We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.
New schools need community support and to be located where there is a demand for places, and should be run by outstanding and established educational providers.
Significant new legislation such as the Home Office Affairs Committee this autumn is now in place and specific offences related to failing to protect from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), however, the training I see as a safeguarding specialist, particularly in schools, demonstrates a need for a serious shake - up.
«That's why these new schools are so important - they give us the school places we need for the future, and they also give parents more choices to find a great school place in their area that's right for their child.»
For a new school, we are working with the government on a site in south Wimbledon, which is ideally placed in the heart of the borough, where the need is greatest and has excellent transport links.
In addition, a further 20 local authority areas have been approved to create a new special school through the free school process, creating 1,700 school places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
Charter schools need the flexibility to move to new facilities if their current buildings are in the wrong place or can't accommodate instructional innovations (for example, new uses of technology, student grouping strategies, blended learning models).
- A new 70 - place school for children with social, emotional and mental health needs in the Chelmsford area
They said:» Where local authorities identify the need for a new school they are required by law to invite proposals to run a new free school and then forward these to the department to decide who would be best placed to do this.
With the UK experiencing the largest increase in demand for primary school places since the 1950s, it is estimated that in the next two years, 250,000 new places will be needed in primary schools — 37 per cent in London alone.
Hampshire County Council has outlined the need for a new 125 - place school for pupils between the ages of four and 16 with social communication needs and Autism spectrum disorder.
The new schools will create more than 1,100 high - quality school places for children with multiple learning needs, including children with autism and mental health needs.
These 52 new schools will provide much - needed places and encourage innovation, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.
It also helps to plan for the new school places that are urgently needed, ensuring that every child has a place at a good school near their home.
«The government doubled basic - need funding for new school places to # 5bn between 2011 and 2015, helping create half a million new places since May 2010,» said a spokeswoman.
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«Do the Maths 2015» says the government is not providing enough cash for new school places needed in the capital.
The report says the government's commitment to new free schools will help meet some of the need for places but urges the Department for Education «to ensure all new free schools are prioritised in areas of need».
Beer caused controversy last October after Schools Week reported that she refused to grant permission for Wigan UTC to convert into an 11 to 19 science, technology, engineering and maths school — giving no reason at the time for her decision despite heads pleading that a new secondary school was needed to match a demand for places.
«We will cap class sizes for five, six and seven - years - olds at 30 and prioritise spending for new places in areas which need them — paid for by ending the Tories» flawed free schools programme.
The government will need to ensure that there are sufficient places available for pupils across the country — whether that be through the establishment of new free schools, or the expansion of existing schools — to cater for an increase in secondary pupil numbers over the next 5 years.
«We're very much in favour, and I'm very passionate about, parents and charities setting up schools, providing choice for people in areas where we need new school places.
The number of pupils with special educational needs waiting in limbo for school places has more than doubled, according to new figures.
The only acceptable reason for a new free school is where there is a need for extra places.
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