Sentences with phrase «new state schools»

The proposal would see no extra costs inflicted on the government as it would be the equivalent of filling ten new state schools without having to build them.

However, the Catholics have said they would not open new state schools if they had to reserve half their places for children of other faiths.

The EIB, the lending institution of the European Union, will be involved in the construction of 40 new state schools under the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP), contributing an overall sum of approximately # 274 million.

The path for Richard Woods to become Georgia's new state schools superintendent opened after his predecessor committed political suicide.

Business Secretary Vince Cable and Justice Minister Simon Hughes have urged Liberal Democrat activists to reject a proposal to ban new state schools from selecting children on the basis of their faith.

· Allow charities to set to up new state schools; set up a new independent educational standards authority; and abolish testing at key stages 1 and 3, and allow more in - school testing at key stage 2.

Free schools, with more than 250 already open and more than 150 approved, are new state schools which have the same independence as academies, operating outside the local authority and with greater flexibility over the curriculum and staffing.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-- The temporary superintendent of public instruction has been selected to stay in the job as Utah's new state schools superintendent.

«On the very day plans for more than 700 new state schools were axed, Clegg championed AV, a form of voting he once described as a «miserable little compromise»,» the former deputy prime minister wrote on his blog.

Free schools are new state schools, independent of local authorities.

November 2013 — The Catholic Bishops» Conference of England and Wales announces that it will boycott the free schools programme, refusing to open any new state schools under the 50 % cap.

that it will boycott the free schools programme, refusing to open any new state schools under the 50 % cap.

In addition to this, the ISC has also proposed that independent schools could help set up new state schools, as well as improve existing relationships between the two.

Lawyers representing students and families from the now - defunct Lake View school district in Arkansas filed a lawsuit in federal court Oct. 25 challenging a new state school consolidation law on the grounds that it violates the district's equal - protection rights and is racially discriminatory, according to the Associated Press.

Free schools are new state schools, independent of local authorities.

And while the new state school funding formula will send additional money to high - poverty districts, it is unclear if it will be enough to offset the new pension costs.

California parents looking for better public schools for their kids will get to elect a new state schools chief in November, and this week was their first chance to compare the three candidates side by side — something parents can't yet do with schools.

-- Independent schools will be expected to support state schools, open new state schools or offer funded places to children whose families can't afford to pay for the hefty fees

In fact, in Illinois, when new Gov. Bruce Rauner was pushing earlier this year for a new state school superintendent, he described the current superintendent as a good person.

Gov. Nathan Deal is proposing a new state school district that would take over failing schools and, possibly, convert them into charter schools.