Sentences with phrase «said academy conversion»
Rachel Gooch, a school governor, writing for Schools Week, said academy conversion is an «unnecessary distraction» for schools, currently occupied with recruitment problems and shrinking budgets.
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Ms Morgan said academy conversion would only be instigated by commissioners «when — and only when — a coasting school has no credible plan or is not improving sufficiently».
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In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.
On subject of academy conversion, Cameron said: «I profoundly believe this is the right direction for our country because I want teachers not bureaucrats deciding how best to educate our children.»
Though England is voucher - averse, its charter - like sector is burgeoning, with more than half of all secondary schools now functioning as «academies» (we would say «conversion charters»), having successfully petitioned Whitehall to extricate them from district control.
Harry Ziman, chair of governors at Kelsall Primary School, in Cheshire, summed up the benefits by saying that: «Academy conversion is the best thing that has ever happened to this school.»
«GCSE results suggest that converting already high - performing schools to academies has little effect on their academic performance, so it's not true to think that academy conversion raises standards across the board,» says Mr Hannay.
The Department for Education said the boards, which advise the regional schools commissioners on rebrokering and academy conversion, would seek «specific advice» from post-16 and special needs experts, but Schools Week understands there has only been one meeting involving them — and many now fear they're being deliberately sidelined.
Asked how the KPIs would be used, a spokesperson for the DfE said: «The role of the regional schools commissioners is to tackle underperformance in academies and free schools, taking decisions on academy conversions and encouraging strong sponsors into the market to support struggling schools.
Christine Blower, of the National Union of Teachers, said: «It is absurd for the government to justify spending # 8.3 bn on academy conversions in two years while at the same time warning of a dire economic situation.
«Forced conversion into academy status is not going to be the default option for coasting schools,» said Mr Hobby.
In an academy conversion document published on its website, Noel - Baker said: «Additional monies have been sourced from the DfE to support any extra costs — this is normal for PFI - funded schools.»
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education, said: «There is evidence to suggest becoming an academy can mean better results for pupils, but only among schools that were LEA - maintained prior to conversion.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said: «A third of secondary schools are now either an academy or have started on the road to conversion.
The executive director of the National Secular Society Keith Porteous Wood said: «A mass conversion of voluntary controlled schools into entirely self - governing academies freed from the moderating influence of local authorities will be the churches» dream and most parents» nightmare.
«In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.
«No evidence» that academy conversion improves underperforming schools, study says (Richard Vaughan, TES)
Despite the setback, the DfE said it expected the rate of academy conversions to increase, bolstered by the Education and Adoption Act that came into force in March, giving the department extra powers to intervene in «coasting» schools and have them taken over by academy sponsors.
You have then extrapolated that to make a generic statement — what I think would be correct is to say that «local support has been found to be more effective than academy conversion IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES».
A parent body in every school can be a powerful way of achieving this but must be clear line of sight with governing boards so it has teeth.We are keen that parents call for such groups whether as a PTA or Parent Council are formed now and ahead of academy conversion so they can have a say during the process.