Young has long been a proponent of the free schools movement, being among the first to
open a free school back in 2011.
Not exact matches
BHA Faith
Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to
Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific
Free Schools which are being
backed to
open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»
BHA Faith
Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is vitally important that
Free School proposals can be properly scrutinised by the public, and this is extremely difficult when we don't know who they are until they are
backed by the Government to
open — by which point, it is often too late to stop them.
Amanda Rose Wilder's documentary about the attempt to
open a «
free school» (no enforced curriculum, virtually all rules co-created with students) in New Jersey was shot way
back in 2007 and 2008, well before the recent controversies on college campuses involving everything from trigger warnings to microaggressions.
Classical 100, the new, government ‑
backed initiative from music exam board ABRSM, Classic FM and record company Decca Classics, was introduced by ABRSM strategic director Lincoln Abbotts: the resource is built around 100 recordings of classical music pieces which teachers can draw upon in lessons,
school assemblies and other
school activities, alongside which there is information about the composer and stories behind the music — it is
free to use and
open to all
schools in the UK.
However, today he will
back the
opening of more
free schools, but only in areas where there is a shortage of places — a restriction that is likely to limit their effectiveness.
Some 332
free schools that
opened in the four years to 2016 - 17 have been funded on the basis of the number of pupils they expected to recruit, but # 41.4 million of these payments has had to be «clawed
back» from
schools which had over-predicted, of which only # 31.5 m has yet been recovered.
«We will now be going
back to them to insist that they publish the remaining impact assessments where a decision has been made whether or not to
open a
free school.
The disclosure follows an investigation by
Schools Week which revealed 53 free schools have pushed back opening since September last year, with at least # 11.7 m already handed out in f
Schools Week which revealed 53
free schools have pushed back opening since September last year, with at least # 11.7 m already handed out in f
schools have pushed
back opening since September last year, with at least # 11.7 m already handed out in funding.
Figures released to the paper under Freedom of Information laws show 53
free schools have pushed
back their
opening dates since September last year.
The best option is for bar associations, law
schools, and non-profits (possibly
backed by BigLaw) to create
free and
open source software (FOSS) for use by all attorneys, from solo practitioners to AmLaw 100 firms.