Sentences with phrase «of sponsored academies improve»

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The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.

Academies which are underachieving will be «required to demonstrate they can improve significantly, or face the possibility of being moved to another sponsor».

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

Test results in sponsored primary academies improve at more than double the rate of non-academies and results for free school meals improve faster in those schools, the department said.

«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»

Those that can improve will be supported to do so by our team of expert heads, and those that can not will be turned into academies under the leadership of our expert school sponsors - one of the best ways of improving underperforming schools.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

Then education secretary Nicky Morgan named five «top performing» academy sponsors as beneficiaries of the funding, and tasked them with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country».

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.

And what has happened to WCAT's share of the # 5m given out to «top performing» academy sponsors tasked with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country»?