Sentences with phrase «pressure on school places»

The increase has put pressure on school places, with pupil numbers having risen for seven successive years.

We'll have the biggest population in Europe by the end of the century and clearly that's having a lot of pressure on school places,» said David Simmonds, the chairman of the LGA's children and young people board.

While the pressure on school places isn't uniform throughout the country, where over-subscription is a challenge what can schools do?

At a time when pressure on school places and buildings is increasing, and the public sector is being asked to make more cuts on spending, it is critical that school providers understand current issues on planning if they are to make best use of their built assets, according to Karen Cooksley and Lindsay Garratt from law firm Winckworth Sherwood

The number of pupils attending secondary school is expected to rise by 20 per cent over the next ten years, putting added pressure on school places.

The pressure to build Mark Robinson, Scape Group chief executive, comments: «As the growth of the primary school population gathers pace, the pressure on school places will soon transfer to the secondary population, requiring a new wave of advanced school building.

He said those tenants that need to move to cheaper accommodation in the suburbs will not put undue pressure on school places, pointing out that there are 50,500 surplus places in London in primary schools and 31,000 in secondary schools.

«Everybody knows there's real pressure on school places at the moment, and the secretary of state for education knows better than most.

With growing pressure on school places due to rising pupil numbers, 3.4 % of home - educating parents say they could not get their child into a preferred school.

Not exact matches

The news that the pressures placed on school staff have caused more than half to experience mental health problems is seriously worrying.

The fund was set up following pressure from police chiefs, local government heads and NHS executives concerned about immigration placing unexpected strain on schools and other services.

To ease shortages of homes, downward pressure on wages and to relieve pressures on hospitals and school places we do need to control numbers better.

This places pressure on independent schools to show how they help children that can not afford to attend them or risk losing their # 100 million tax break.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

«After years of austerity which have increased pressures on schools, the funding reforms must be managed in a way that does not add to the existing pressures on schools or result in «knee - jerk» responses that increase the burdens placed on teachers.

The new international development secretary was a key figure in the leave campaign, criticising the government's record on immigration and warning that there was unsustainable pressure on primary school places.

It appears as if the pressures placed on previously failing schools did not lead them to distort their test results.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

Whereas government - run schools are primarily accountable to elected school boards and unelected state education bureaucrats, private education providers are accountable directly to parents, and the same market forces that place competitive pressure on other kinds of businesses operate on these education providers as well.

Given the steady rise in pupil numbers and the pressures this puts on schools to offer places, Jackie Maginnis of the Modular and Portable Building Association discusses the benefits of modular and offsite build as a possible solution to the ongoing problem.

This approach was meant both to widen opportunities for students and to place competitive pressures on the schools.

In places with fast - growing enrollments, the independent public schools also eased pressure on facilities and capital budgets.

The growing pressures placed on school leaders is yet another issue deterring capable candidates from applying for headship.

The new schools would be largely secondaries in areas where there is pressure on places, says CoE spokeswoman

That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.

According to a report from the Scotsman, the new set of guidelines says that schools should not place «undue pressure on family budgets» and that schools should design their uniform policies «with very minimum costs at the forefront of their minds».

Amongst its many advantages, the Breaks for Kids fund means that the financial pressure to attend the school trip is not placed on the youngster or the school.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

John Buell: I am pleasantly surprised, but I do think the attention to this book is partially a result of three intersecting and destructive trends in American life: increasing demands on schools, growing time pressures on adults, and the demands homework places on both children and adults.

The mother of two had expected Bradley, now 11, to get a place at free school Ealing Fields High — her first choice — which was due to open last September to reduce pressure on places across Ealing.

That is true, and while we have numerous studies establishing positive competitive effects on district schools from choice programs, few states have choice programs going at a scale to place a large amount of pressure on district enrolments.

Since the CPS's accountability policy provided strong incentives for the lowest - performing schools, these schools faced significant pressure to change behavior in order to get off, or to avoid being placed on, academic probation.

This may be because having a charter school in the same building places the same amount of pressure on a district school regardless of charter performance, whereas those district schools located near to but not in the same building as a charter feel stronger pressure from high - performing charters.

Labour Party analysis suggested half a million children were now in «super-sized» primary classes, and pressure on places was starting to hit secondary schools.

«Any number should really be based on an estimate on the number of schools we need to meet place pressures, rather than plucked out of the air.

This would not only relieve the pressure on local philanthropists and foundations, Rico said, but could help expand the networks to meet the demand for places in charter schools.

«The demand for places is growing, as we are beginning to see the pressure on primary schools transfer to secondary,» said Helen Jenner, chairwoman of the capital's admissions board.

Christopher Nagy, superintendent of Northern Valley Regional School District, said the confluence of changes was «extremely burdensome and placing tremendous pressure on districts.»

He said the pressure on places was contributing to larger class sizes and children having to travel further to school.

«The Charter School Act is an unconstitutional law that impedes the state's progress toward fully funding public education and places even greater pressure on school districts to fill this gap,» the coalition's letterSchool Act is an unconstitutional law that impedes the state's progress toward fully funding public education and places even greater pressure on school districts to fill this gap,» the coalition's letterschool districts to fill this gap,» the coalition's letter said.

But at the same time, he's «concerned that its placing higher - stakes on «reclassifying» ELLs as proficient in English might result in schools feeling pressured to move ELLs out of receiving supportive services too soon.»

Councils say that a rise in pupils diagnosed with autism, social and emotional needs, or severe physical and neurological needs, has put pressure on local state school places.

London's shortage of school places is said to be putting «unprecedented pressure» on the city's 32 local authorities.

We know schools will want the tests to run smoothly on the day and, like us, will not want any unnecessary pressure placed on students relatively soon before GCSEs.

The action proposed by the Secretary to reduce accessibility to the EACs by moving away from a regional structure is counterintuitive to the pressures that are placed on states and local school districts.

School choice is expected to place pressure on schools to improve in order to attract and retain students.

Extra classroom places are likely to relieve some of the increasing pressure on primary schools, particularly in London and the big cities, where a surge in the birth rate has seen primary schools struggling to cope with the rising demand.

But the stakes in this second year under the new system will only be higher, as the law gives school districts the power to bring tenure charges against teachers who don't fare well in a second consecutive year, putting new pressures on teachers and placing new responsibility on schools.

But the Netmums website says there is disquiet among parents - with fears that expansion will change the character of primary schools and the pressure on places will make it harder to get a first choice place.

Chief executive of the Pre-School Alliance Neil Leitch said: «Parents of eligible children, who might have preferred to place their child with a local childminder or at a local PVI group setting, may feel under pressure to instead opt for a school - based nursery to have a better chance of securing a place at that same school later on.