Sentences with phrase «of academy sponsors»

The task of boosting the number of academy sponsors has been made a priority of the regional schools commissioners.

Government data has revealed that half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate.

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.

A further six were due to measure schools» capacity to improve, including availability of academy sponsors in the area and initial teacher training provider coverage.

A further six will measure schools» capacity to improve, including availability of academy sponsors in the area and initial teacher training provider coverage.

Commissioning In order for the new funding arrangements to work, Reform recommends that it must be accompanied strong and effective commissioning and decommissioning of academy sponsors.

Others cover things such as changes in «sponsor attainment rating [s]» — believed to be an internal assessment of academy sponsors» performance, which the DfE has previously refused to make public.

«Sponsored» academies are schools that the Government has labelled as «underperforming» and put under the control of an academy sponsor.

«With a shortage of academy sponsors and struggling schools currently in the dark about their future the simplest remedy is to give councils the power to turn these schools around where this is the best option locally.»

That bill was introduced to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» and speed up the process of dealing with failing schools by taking them out of local authority control and putting them in the hands of academy sponsors.

But we're also looking at increasing the number of converters that we get in the region, and a major priority is to build our pool of academy sponsors.»

A DfE spokesperson said: «The role of the RSCs is to make decisions on whether schools can convert to academy status, increasing the number and effectiveness of academy sponsors, and tackle underperformance in all schools using academy measures where appropriate.

Appointed by the Secretary of State, RSCs have a remit of tackling underperformance in academies and boosting the number of academy sponsors.

2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves on to smugly pointing out how some of the academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.

Led and monitored by the Executive Director and the Head of School Improvement, NET determines a «service level agreement» with each of the academies it sponsors / partners, with the following information:

She added: «I think it's very, very simple, you see from the reports Ofsted have already produced on some of the academy sponsors - they are able, they have the powers to inspect the support that that sponsor is giving to the schools within its chain.

Brought in last September, they were told to tackle underperformance and to boost the number of academy sponsors.

Appointed by the Secretary of State, the RSCs have a remit of tackling underperformance in academies and boosting the number of academy sponsors.

The commissioners are part of the government's middle tier of accountability for academies, brought in last September and tasked with tackling underperformance and boosting the number of academy sponsors.