Sentences with phrase «school commissioners»

Under the plan, a certain number of complaints from parents would compel the regional schools commissioner for their area to intervene.

As the number of academies rises, his role of national schools commissioner would appear to be one of growing power.

It follows an announcement of sweeping reforms to the way schools are measured, including changes to how government intervention is triggered, and a scaling back of the role of schools commissioners.

The government has released the latest data showing the performance of the regional school commissioners in their second year of the job.

Eight senior civil servants from the education sector have already been announced to help run regional schools commissioner offices.

There should be a clearer description of the national schools commissioner role.

But council leaders say regional schools commissioners lack the «capability and capacity» for the job and «could risk children's education».

The document reveals a rare glimpse into the inner workings of schools commissioner decisions, few of which are currently made public.

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.

One of the most notable changes resulting from academy growth has been the creation and rapid expansion of the department's regional schools commissioner group.

The national schools commissioner will retire from the civil service at the end of this academic year, he has announced.

It may be that the new regional schools commissioners are a better group for managing schools.

Regional school commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber Janet Bexon Smith told the committee: «Re-brokerage does sometimes take time, and that is about finding the right match.

Ultimately, each grantee will present their final conversion plans to the IPS Board of School Commissioners for final approval.

The minutes of the meeting, also attended by national schools commissioner Sir David Carter, show the school was given permission to join the Dunham Trust, with key discussion points school improvement and governance.

Councils which are deemed to be chronically underperforming will also have their schools pushed over the line by the Regional Schools Commissioners who oversee the process.

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.

The Education Fellowship Trust has been issued with a termination warning notice relating to Wrenn School in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, by schools commissioner Martin Post.

The list of KPIs still isn't on the government's website, despite the fact national schools commissioner Frank Green has already been forced to apologise for claiming they were published last August.

The government has brought local authorities back into the fold as part of new «sub-regional improvement boards» set up to advise school commissioners on struggling schools.

According to an applicant pack, there will also be a ninth deputy director who will lead a national team and support schools commissioner Sir David Carter.

Schools Week understands the directive was sent to all eight regional school commissioner regions as efforts are stepped up to meet Mr Cameron's pre-election pledge of 500 new free schools.

As a result, he created six Regional Schools Commissioners working between central government and individual schools.

Local, democratically accountable school commissioners should be introduced to help support schools to continue to raise standards, a new report published today by the IPPR think - tank recommends.

The 14 - to - 19 Robert Owen Academy in Herefordshire, which has been in special measures for almost three years, has criticised thecommunication between schools commissioners and Ofsted after it received a letter confirming it will close in August.

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.

The investigation follows on from the Committee's report on Regional Schools Commissioners published in January 2016, and will continue its work to scrutinise the «middle tier» of governance between Whitehall and individual schools.

I am proud to have played a part in this, and to have had the honour to lead the Regional Schools Commissioners team.

As one regional schools commissioner ponders whether a school can voluntarily quit its multi-academy trust, education consultant Simon Foulkes examines the legal issues Schools occasionally leave one multi-academy...

Indianapolis — The Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) Board of School Commissioners tonight voted to move forward with two new «Innovation Network Schools» (or «Innovation Schools») within the district that will lead to more educator and family empowerment and involvement in the schools and higher academic achievement for Indianapolis students.

Even though # 403,000 has been spent on the school, the local regional schools commissioner Vicky Beer warned parents last month she was running a consultation to consider closure, according to the Manchester Evening News.

However, the ideal size was redefined between June, when Frank Green, the national schools commissioner said about seven to ten schools, then in November told the National Association of Schools Business Managers» (NASBM) national conference it was about 15 to 20.

Sir David Carter has vowed to «challenge all schools to perform better» after being appointed as the next national schools commissioner today.

An academy chain whose founders have a government contract to provide advisers to help regional schools commissioners judge the quality of struggling schools is to have its nine...

Should they form part of the next coalition, the Liberal Democrats have already stated their intention to fight for a Lib Dem education secretary and to get rid of unelected school commissioners who are in charge of overseeing academies — moves that will be bitterly disputed should they enter into another coalition with the Conservatives.

The report also shows that, between August 2014 and July 2015, regional school commissioners issued 43 pre-warning notices, including 13 to converter academies, 28 to sponsored academies and two to trusts concerning four academies.

We can expect unfunded new cost pressures with a flat cash school budget settlement, and an evolving middle tier via School Commissioners — whose clear remit is yet to be clearly understood.

Maryland's local - control charter school law put the City Schools commissioners in charge of authorizing and overseeing charter schools.

Previously held by Frank Green, the role will involve managing the seven remaining Royal Schools Commissioners (RSCs), in addition to whoever replaces Carter.

Commenting on the report, Roy Perry, Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils remain concerned that Regional Schools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schools.

Regional schools commissioner Tim Coulson is stepping down from the role to head up a multi-academy trust — leaving just three originals RSCs still in post.

But Morgan insisted it was her desire to see «talented» officers from councils set up multi-academy trusts, rather than the authorities themselves, confirming what schools commissioner Sir David Carter has said in the past.

She added: «We remain concerned about academies that aren't doing so well — regional school commissioners already have responsibility for supporting these, and we'd like to see evidence that they are doing this well, before they are given the responsibilities to support potentially many more schools in their areas.

Inspiration claimed that a member of regional school commissioner Sue Baldwin's team gave evidence at both the September inspection and the January inspection by phone call.

The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners policy: Conducting Research and Surveys, and Data Sharing

The report quotes research from PTA UK that «just one in ten parents know what role Regional Schools Commissioners play in their child's education».

The structure, which Schools Week has learned involves four sub-regional improvement boards in each regional schools commissioner area, gives a clue to what education secretary Justine Greening (pictured) had in mind when she said this week the government would move away from a «purely punitive intervention approach».

Ministers have been accused of dragging their feet over the publication of a key academies document that will reveal how schools commissioners are judged.

Schools have been unable to secure takeovers due to a lack of sponsors, complicated PFI contracts, and even because regional schools commissioners sent academy orders through late — sometimes as much as a year after Ofsted first inspected them.

Baverstock academy, in Birmingham, faced closure before a volte - face from former regional schools commissioner Pank Patel.