Sentences with phrase «school commissioners responsible»
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.
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As the new schools commissioner, Quinn will be responsible for overseeing the growth of academies in the region and will monitor their performance to ensure children are receiving the best education possible.
He told colleagues in an email that he expects to move to the new role over the summer, adding he is working with the national schools commissioner Sir David Carter to ensure there are no conflict of interests over decisions he is responsible for.
Regional schools commissioners will be responsible for doling out the cash, and will also provide support to MATs to take on new schools with «high levels of disadvantaged pupils and significant performance gaps».
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said her appointment of a school commissioner for Birmingham was a welcome shift and broadly in line with proposals he had made jointly with the former education secretary David Blunkett for a localised tier of accountability responsible for driving up school standards.
I am absolutely amazed that the «point person» for Governor Cuomo on Public Education got his «background» from Teach for America, a program that espouses the idea that teachers can simply walk into a classroom and start teaching with no pedagogical training, and our «commissioner» of education who is responsible for public education got his «background» from the charter school movement.
As Advocate concluded, «The overwhelming drive of the state education commissioner and the state Board of Education should be toward improving traditional public schools, which are responsible for educating the vast, vast majority of children in the state.
Researchers have identified 13 academy trusts responsible for 12,000 pupils or more, which are dubbed «system leaders» under a new system used by the national schools commissioner.