Sentences with phrase «poor condition of school buildings»

Although the poor condition of school buildings is not unique to urban districts, the magnitude and severity of the problem typically is.

The first phase, which continues until March 2019, focuses on reducing the poor condition of school buildings and providing pupil places where needed by reducing surplus capacity, and addressing specific Welsh medium and Faith based provision needs.

The first wave of investment for the Century Schools and Education Programme, which concludes in 2019, focuses on reducing the poor condition of school buildings and providing pupil places where needed.

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Laws said that this was the biggest public effort to improve the schools estate in decades, and that the initiative was on track to meet its goal of improving 261 school buildings in very poor condition by the end of 2017.

The methodology prioritised individual school buildings or blocks where the continued operation of the school is at risk due to the building's poor condition — determined as a building that is not functioning as intended or is at risk of imminent failure.

A shocking 1 in 5 teachers have quit their jobs in the past because of the poor state of school buildings and those who are unhappy with the current condition of their schools are more likely to consider quitting.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

The report also highlights separate figures published by a construction journal in 2014 which suggested almost a quarter (23 %) of councils in England rated the condition of school buildings in their areas as «extremely poor» or «very poor».

The school, which was built for a roll of 2,355, wrote to the regulator after nine of its classrooms were found to be in such poor condition they had to be knocked down.

The report also found that there is a risk of creating «perverse incentives» — as school leaders could let buildings fall into such poor condition they actually meet DfE replacement criteria.