Sentences with phrase «opt out of local authority control»

These were outstanding schools which have taken up the government's offer to opt out of local authority control and become independent academies.

The other is the academies programme, where good schools are being encouraged to opt out of local authority control.

Combined with this, many schools started to opt out of local authority control.

And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.

Choice of the Oratory was criticised because the school had opted out of local authority control; choice of St Olave's was criticised because admission was selective.

This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of number of schools opting out of Local Authority control and becoming academies; employers in their own right.

The changes could mean thousands of schools opting out of local authority control and a much - reduced role for local councils in education.

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An Academies Act, passed in the summer, paved the way for groups of parents, teachers and charities to set up their own «free schools», and for the expansion of the academies programme, under which schools are being encouraged to «opt out» of local authority control.