Sentences with phrase «of local education authorities»

He has forgotten the role of local education authorities in those days, often a force for innovation and an important counter balance to central government and special interests.

This will be a tough planning challenge for national and local government, against a background of spending constraints and growing numbers of schools moving outside of local education authority control.

Free schools work outside of local education authority control and receive money directly from the government.

But it was just the opposite; grant maintained schools had far more autonomy than schools under the thumb of the local education authority.

It is not the responsibility of the local education authority, or the local school, or, indeed the health visitor!

There are 13 high schools under the domain of the local education authority, 12 of which are either comprehensive, foundation or voluntary - aided, and one city academy.

They are funded directly by the government and run independently of local education authorities.

The Education Reform Act 1988 gave individual school governing bodies control and accountability for their own budgets and staff under a system that gave each inner - London borough the powers of a local education authority.

Both these concerns were exacerbated by the practices of some local education authorities, in concentrating resources on their grammar schools.

At least two schools in England have introduced the equipment for constant recording with the consent of local education authorities.

Solutions that work in countries where there is faith in the wisdom of appointed civil servants are unlikely to work as well in systems where the chief officer of a local education authority is elected by the local citizens every four years.

There are also schools under the remit of the local education authorities and religious schools overseen by the diocese.

Whilst the last few years have seen a significant change in the role of the local education authority (LEA), successive governments have still seen fit to ensure the responsibility for school place planning still rests with the local authority.

The act was a determined attempt to diminish the power of local education authorities (which are similar to America's school districts) and to devolve resources and responsibility for meeting national standards to individual schools.

In an idea very similar to that proposed by Iain Duncan Smith, the public services policy group will say that parents should have the power to set up new schools to rival those of local education authorities:

The role of local education authorities would have been pared back and new grammar schools opened.