Sentences with phrase «schools and academy chains»

In contrast, stand - alone academies, free schools and academy chains, overseen by central Government (and their agencies such as the Education Funding Agency and Regional Schools Commissioners), lack transparency and are undemocratic.

There will be no more free schools and academy chains will made accountable.

School Direct presents a fantastic opportunity to attract the best graduates into teaching — with groups of schools and academy chains offering real career development to compete with the best graduate employers.

And for some, School Direct is just the start of the journey, with a number of schools and academy chains choosing to take the next step and applying to become accredited school - led and school - centred ITT providers themselves (known as SCITTs).

Teaching schools and academy chain heavyweights are exploring a unique partnership to found a new higher - education institute that would train expert teachers to tackle the leadership crisis in challenging schools.

Teaching schools and academy chain heavyweights are exploring a unique partnership to found a new higher - education institute that would train expert teachers to tackle the leadership crisis in...

Not exact matches

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

The candidates also blasted Eva Moskowitz, the controversial founder and director of the Harlem Success Academy chain of charter schools.

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

Cuomo played a face - to - face role in brokering the April deal between the city and Eva Moskowitz, head of the Success Academy chain of charter schools, according to a newly released round of his public schedules.

Free schools are newly established schools set up by groups such as teachers, parents, businesses and academy chains, with freedom over areas such as the curriculum.

Bloomberg said the charter school expansion would be achieved mainly by speeding up the replication of chain - style charters such as KIPP and the Success Academy network that already have a presence in the city.

In the early years of academisation — under both Labour and coalition governments — the academy chains that ran into trouble were those that expanded too fast, taking on too many schools.

There are outstanding school leaders and there are outstanding academy chains — just as there are outstanding local authorities.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is under fire from all sides for its harsh discipline policies and treatment of students with special needs.

By unfolding into a cellular chain, clusters of cancer cells can slide through capillary tubes less than 10 micrometers wide, Sam Au of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report April 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

The DfE has been reluctant to be too prescriptive about the optimum size of a multi-academy trust, but it is likely that over time we will see MATs grow from 3, 4, 5 schools, typically, to trusts operating at least a dozen and may be upwards of 20 — 25 schools, with there still being a place for academy chains of 50 + schools.

One chief executive told Reform they felt their chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or academies requiring sponsors.

The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an academy chain sponsor will provide its academies with additional services, such as hiring executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).

Open minded schools, local authorities and academy chains are moving into partnerships with commercial organisations in areas such as resource development and CPD.

According to The Sutton Trust, over the last year, the government has been more willing to move underperforming academies from their chains and Regional Schools Commissioners have been actively re-brokering academies.

In addition to offering their SEF for free to all schools Bluewave Education is also offering a facility for academy chains, federations and Multi Academy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and repacademy chains, federations and Multi Academy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and repAcademy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and reporting.

However, to make sure that the academies programme realises its goal of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, the report is urging the government, and the national and regional schools commissioners, to do more to create mechanisms that spread good practice from the best academy chains to the rest.

That's why we are introducing new measures to transform failing and coasting schools, funding the best academy chains to share excellence in struggling regions in the North and creating a National Teaching Service - sending some of our best teachers to the areas that need them most.»

«The cost of failure where an academy chain runs several schools is hugely damaging for pupils and government needs a better grip of when chains are at risk of failure.

An academy chain has dropped its plans to extend the school day by 45 minutes, following protests from parents and teachers.

She also claims that «there's no evidence converting schools to academies improves children's education» and warns that there aren't enough good multi-academy chains to run the thousands of schools that will be converted.

High - performing academy chains will also play a huge role in spreading existing best practice and innovation between schools.

29 per cent of academy schools and 32 per cent of non-academies purchase in a chain or cluster.

The think tank report, Primary Focus, proposes that the government «convert all primary schools into academies, and then ask each school to join an academy «chain» by 2020».

Sir David (pictured), who started the job at the beginning of February, was unable to answer questions about his plans to introduce a new tier system for academy chains and repeated requests from Schools Week for further information about transparency — and why it was now missing from his plans — were also refused.

In his Autumn Statement, Mr Osborne said the «very best» academy chains in the north would benefit from an extra # 10 million to improve standards in schools where not enough pupils achieved five A * - C GCSEs, including English and maths.

It plans to ask the government to stop poor quality academy chains from sponsoring new schools and to extend academy freedoms, such as lifting the national curriculum, to maintained schools.

It can also assist where an established academy is taken over by an existing academy chain or where a free school is established upon the merger, take - over and / or closure of existing schools or services.

But Morgan's hopes were quickly dashed when the NASUWT general secretary, Chris Keates, followed her at the podium and asked Morgan to reconsider the plan to move 16,000 schools in England from local authority oversight to control by chains of academy trusts by 2022.

An academy chain established by the schools minister has been forced to drop controversial plans to extend the day for children as young as five after protests from parents and teachers.

Malcolm Trobe, the interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said salary levels were set by factors including the value - for - money the chief executives provided, and could be offset by the saving an academy chain could bring, such as group discounts for contracts.

An analysis of academy accounts by Schools Week found the deficit for the LGPS, a defined contribution benefit scheme for non-teaching staff including school business leaders and teaching assistants, is growing every year as chains expand and returns on investment fail to improve.

It's something that academy chains such as Ark and Inspiration Trust have made a priority by appointing teams of specialists to work with their schools to develop communities of subject knowledge.

Steve Adcock, of the academy chain United Learning, is concerned about this mismatch and wants to appraise school leaders of the problem.

The element of compulsion could aggravate parents and there might be difficult questions about the merits of successful local schools being handed over to an unfamiliar academy chain.

At present, academy chains can already remove governing bodies from their individual schools - and a single board of trustees can act as a governing body for the entire chain.

Let's see if I've got this right... Stefan Pryor was co-founder and board member of Amistad Academy, the «flagship» school of Achievement First, a charter school chain he helped found and on whose board he sat until he was made Commissioner of Education of the State of Connecticut in Sept. 2011.

And she asked MPs: «What is autonomous about forcing a highly performing school into an academy chain?»

Schools which are already academies and which fall into the «requires improvement» category face being taken away from their existing academy chain and run by another.

The free schools programme, established by Michael Gove in 2010 as a way for members of the public and teachers to set up their own schools, is increasingly used by large, established academy chains to start their own schools.

She said: «The Tories have all but abandoned the concept of parent - led schools, and are instead overseeing a huge expansion of academy chains opening new schools.»

Students at Seymour Dual Language Academy formed a human chain, joining hands to show the links between the community and the school during a recent event.