Sentences with phrase «oversight of academy schools»

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And the lack of oversight created by «freedom» means that, as with academies, groups with a non-educational agenda could gain control of free schools for their own purposes.

The Success Academy charter school network has refused to sign mandatory contracts granting the city Department of Education oversight over its pre-kindergarten program, deputy mayor Richard Buery said Thursday, signaling the latest showdown between the charter network and Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.

The recognition that some local oversight is needed might be at the heart of the decision by Michael Gove, the former education secretary, to appoint eight regional school commissioners responsible for oversight of academies and free schools in England.

Devolving power to English regions and cities could offer a real chance to introduce more local oversight of the way academies and free schools are being managed.

That role will require oversight and performance management of the heads of the individual academy schools.

Where a school already has effective business management systems, or where a primary school is too small to bear this cost alone, it makes sense to at least buy in the oversight of a properly qualified accountant from another academy, or to group together to share the cost.

Consequently, the ASBCS needs to be empowered to take on a stronger oversight role when charters such as Discovery Creemos Academy show signs of significant financial difficulty instead of having no power to close a school for financial reasons and ending up renewing its charter authorization for 20 years a mere seven months before it collapsed.

But Morgan's hopes were quickly dashed when the NASUWT general secretary, Chris Keates, followed her at the podium and asked Morgan to reconsider the plan to move 16,000 schools in England from local authority oversight to control by chains of academy trusts by 2022.

Sandy Theis, executive director of left - leaning ProgressOhio, which has pushed for closer oversight of the state's charter schools, questioned why Trump chose to visit Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy.

The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.

But Mr Hunt says that for both free schools and academy trusts there has been a serious lack of oversight.

Perry Beeches The Academy Trust — which runs five schools in Birmingham — has been issued with a financial notice to improve after an investigation revealed a string of «significant» financial oversight failures.

The government has introduced school commissioners to monitor academies and Labour is proposing directors of school standards who would have oversight of all state - funded schools in their local areas.

There is a call for more transparency in the oversight of academies, including creating a way for schools to leave academy chains and to develop a plan for schools when an academy chain fails.

«As the number of academies and free schools has increased, the eight RSCs have recruited strong teams to support their work to provide effective oversight of schools and advise the national school commissioner and ministers.»

«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.»

In a statement, the Department for Education said: «All academies operate under a strict system of financial oversight and accountability, more robust than in council - run schools.

«There are hundreds and thousands of kids and teachers that will benefit from our model,» Nathan Currie, superintendent at N.C. Connections Academy, told a committee of influential state lawmakers Tuesday, one day after making a similar pitch to a state charter school oversight panel.

A few examples of responsibilities include middle and high school reform, smaller learning communities, continuation high schools, court and community schools, independent study, Partnership Academies, Regional Occupational Centers and Programs, gender equity compliance, business and industry partnerships, and oversight of state and federal programs totaling over $ 1 billion in annual revenues.

EFA was criticised by the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee recently for failing to have robust oversight of academies, so it appears to be a systemic issue across all types of school.

Devolving power to English regions and cities could offer a real chance to introduce more local oversight of the way academies and free schools are being managed.

A raft of reforms to school accountability, including an education commissioner for Birmingham, inspections of city academy chains and new oversight of school governors, were announced on Tuesday by the education secretary in response to a damning report into extremist infiltration of schools.

In addition to the cases that have made media headlines, both the NAO and Education Select Committee have highlighted problems with the current system of oversight and intervention for maintained and academy schools.

Roybal Learning Center, City • CA 2008 — 2010 Assistant Principal Provided oversight and direction for the International School of Languages Academy and effectively developed and implemented the Advisory Program.