Sentences with phrase «opening free schools where»

The New Schools Network (NSN) has today released an analysis of exclusion data that reveals 20 children are excluded from school each day for racist abuse, arguing that the new category of opening free schools where there is a «social need» would allow groups to «create schools designed to build community cohesion».

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Don't know where you live, but our schools have locks on the doors, and our windows open... and most schools are gun - free without a dumb sign.

Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.

Twelve schools from across the UK will meet at the British Library for the Institute of Ideas» Debating Matters competition, a weekend of tough yet open debate on difficult contemporary topics where, most importantly, free speech is encouraged.

«There is a severe shortage of school places, yet this Government is sanctioning the opening of free schools in areas where there is no demand for additional places and eating up scarce funding in the process.

There were also concerns over the lack of bids to open primary free schools in areas where more places for youngsters were desperately needed.

The Sir Isaac Newton School in Norwich was opened by Education Minister Elizabeth Truss, a Norfolk MP, who said free schools allowed parents and students to get the education they wanted where they live.

Nowhere is this centralisation clearer than in the case of academies and free schools and the decision on where they should be opened.

Bousted added: «And the government persists in wasting money by allowing free schools to open in areas where there is no shortage of places.»

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Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of union ATL, is also on side with the NUT, stating that the «government persists in wasting money by allowing free schools to open in areas where there is no shortage of places».

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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.

For example, the open enrollment system that was implemented in Charlotte - Mecklenburg in 2002 provided assignment priorities in its lotteries to students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch applying to schools where less than half of the previous year's school population was eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Allowing free schools to open where there is a «social need» would increase community integration and help prevent racist abuse in classrooms, a free school campaign group has claimed.

The minister also said the Lib Dems would keep the academy school system, and allow more free schools to open, but only in places where there was a need for extra places.

Free schools have opened where new school places are not needed, in many cases having a detrimental impact on existing schools.

«That is why we are replacing failing schools with sponsored academies, which are proven to raise standards, opening new free schools where parents want them and introducing a more rigorous curriculum, with qualifications that match the world's best.»

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network which supports the opening of free schools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for toSchools Network which supports the opening of free schools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for toschools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for toschools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for too long.

Our analysis of secondary free schools suggests that since 2014, free schools have opened in areas where demand in five years» time is forecast to exceed available capacity.

But Natalie Evans, director of New Schools Network, said: «Over 90 % of primary free schools opened or approved to open are in areas where new school places are Schools Network, said: «Over 90 % of primary free schools opened or approved to open are in areas where new school places are schools opened or approved to open are in areas where new school places are needed.

But education ministers have argued the free schools policy has given parents and community groups a greater say in where and how schools should be opened and run.

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Blackpool and Walsall have been identified as the two areas of the country most in need of new free schools, as the government prepares to restrict where the controversial institutions can be opened.

The Sir Isaac Newton School in Norwich was opened by Education Minister Elizabeth Truss, a Norfolk MP, who said free schools allowed parents and students to get the education they wanted where they live.

The report says that 87 % of free school primary places opened in 2013 were in districts where the need for school places is «high or severe».

Mr Courtney added: «The NUT maintains that the free school policy has diverted funds into a small number of schools and prevented Local Authorities opening schools where most needed.

Elements primary, which plans to open in September 2015, will serve an area of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with a «predominantly white working class community», where more than half the pupils will be expected to be eligible for free school meals.

«With the uncertainty over where free schools are going to open in the borough it is difficult to forecast places available,» said Cllr Walker.

A report launched today by Policy Exchange shows analysis of schools in areas where free schools have opened and concludes that standards in nearby primary and secondary schools were driven up by the effects of competition.

Asked about her particular view on free schools, Dr Allen said she did not «have a problem with free schools opening» but felt that «given we are in a position where we have a rising pupil population I think it's important we focus on opening schools where they are really needed for children».

«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.

76 % of open mainstream free schools up to September 2016 are located in areas where there was a need for more school places, and almost half are in the 30 % most deprived communities in the country.

«The fact is that two thirds of free schools are being set up in areas where there aren't enough places, and in London, an even higher proportion; every primary free school opening in London next month is in a borough with a projected shortfall.»

«While parents desperately struggle to get their children a place in a local school, the government continues to promote its ideological free schools programme instead of giving local authorities the legal powers to open new schools where they are needed.»

These teacher leaders serve in open - enrollment schools where more than 85 % of students receive free or reduced priced meals.

Likewise, Harvard Professor Paul Reville decried that «in places like Michigan and Arizona where the approach to opening up choice has been a Wild West version of an unregulated free market, the results have been highly disappointing, giving school choice a bad name.»

Our schools, like all charters, are tuition free public schools, open to any student regardless of where they live.

The government has been urged to allow free schools to open in areas where there is a «social need» for the integration of segregated communities.

Henry Stewart, from the Local Schools Network, warned of a «free - for - all» and described the change as «just another loophole», claiming that new schools needed to open where there was a demand for Schools Network, warned of a «free - for - all» and described the change as «just another loophole», claiming that new schools needed to open where there was a demand for schools needed to open where there was a demand for places.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.

In other words, are we confident that free schools have genuinely caused an overall improvement in outcomes in the areas where they've opened (particularly in lower performing schools, as the report claims)?