Sentences with phrase «schools and academy sponsors»

The documents include the criteria for approving free schools and academy sponsors.

Not exact matches

Edmiston is the sponsor of three secondary schools within the English academy programme, and is chair of governors for all three academies.

Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.

An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.

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According to NFER «the differences in school GCSE performance between sponsored academies that have been open for between two and four years and a group of similar maintained schools were generally small and mostly not statistically significant.»

In England, there are several types of academies, including sponsored and converter academies and free schools.

«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 Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.

Community of Peace Academy (CPA) was established as a charter school and is sponsored by the St. Paul Public School Disschool and is sponsored by the St. Paul Public School DisSchool District.

The report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.

Between 2010/11 and 2016/17, 4,674 schools, mainly those that Ofsted had rated as good or outstanding, became academies without a sponsor.

These brand new schools are set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

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 IAA is rooted in the sponsored Academy movement but is now attracting increasing numbers of like - minded converters, primary, special and free schools.

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).

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

In a statement, the DfE said: «As more schools choose to convert to academy status and struggling schools become academies with the support of a strong sponsor, it is important RSCs have the right resources to build system capacity and hold schools to account for their performance.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thiSCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thischool has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking.

Tom Atwood, chairman of the schools sponsor Atwood Academies, said: «The people of Bexhill and more particularly the children of Bexhill have in recent years been let down badly by an ill thought out building design and worse a dreadful implementation of the new build.

The commissioning of academies is currently undertaken by two separate bodies: the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which is an executive agency of the DfE responsible for funding schools, and the Schools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy spschools, and the Schools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy spSchools Commissioner Group (SCG), which is part of the DfE responsible for matching schools to academy spschools to academy sponsors.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municiSchools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools is separately allocated through the municipality.

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

The remaining 2,006 converter academies do not have sponsors and are schools previously assessed as «performing well» that have chosen to make the transition to academy status.

Provision for art and design is increasingly influenced by school type, and most worryingly academy sponsors have been the biggest reduction in time for the subject.

The academy opened in a disadvantaged part of western Newcastle in 2008, it is a sponsored academy, supported by the Laidlaw Schools Trust, and has since become an all ‑ through school, with an on - site primary.

Under a Conservative Government, any school that Ofsted says «requires improvement» and can not demonstrate that it has the capacity to improve will have to become a sponsored academy.

Schools minister Nick Gibb said: «Converter academies are leading the way in strong academic standards and over time we will see the excellence and expertise of strong sponsors spread.

The resources are suitable for all staff at any type of school, school governors, parents, government, local authority, free school, and academy sponsors.

The Academy Partnership Award, sponsored by ESPO, last year went to Manchester Communication Academy, a new high school and community facility with three principal partners — BT, Manchester College and the City Council.

23 - 27 — Professional development: «Total Quality Transformation: Train - the - Trainer,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, CSchool Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, CSchool Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Cschool, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Calif..

18 - 19 — Professional development: «The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: The «Principle - Centered» Approach to Quality Schools,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for superintendents, central - office administrators, board members, principals, teachers, and parents, to be held at the Mills House Hotel in Charleston, S.C. Contact: A.A.S.A. - N.A.S.E., 1801 North Moore St., Arlington, Va. 22209 - 9988; [phone]; fax: [phone].

16 - 17, 17 - 18 — Outcome - based education: Conference on quality schools, sponsored by the National Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 atschools, sponsored by the National Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 atSchools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 at the...

«North Yorkshire County Council supports the application from Heathfield Academy Trust, which already sponsors a number of schools near Catterick and who the DfE identified as a potential sponsor for the new school in Catterick.

Sponsored academies are transforming some of the most challenging schools across the country, tackling decades of failure and mediocrity — new sponsors should be given the best possible opportunity to tackle these issues and transform pupils» education.»

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

«In March it was decided that the additional primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sAcademy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sacademy sponsor.

To support the fact that councils are doing a good job at keeping standards high in schools, the report reveals that 89 per cent of council - maintained schools are rated as good or outstanding, compared to 62 per cent of sponsored academies; 88.5 per cent of convertor academies; and 82 per cent of free schools.

Academy development & partnerships The Academy Partnership Award, sponsored by ESPO, went to Baxter College and H.E.L.P. Habberley Educational Learning Partnership (H.E.L.P.) arose from the demise of the Building Schools for the Future initiative.

A DfE spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

Instead, legislation requires the academy's sponsor to communicate plans for improvement to the parents of registered pupils at the school — and in reality this is likely to be joint effort.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education said: «Councils are only required to cover a school's deficit when it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance, and the deficit was accumulated under council control.

However, in the studies we looked at, a majority of converter and sponsored academies report that they give support to other schools, and secondary academies, larger academies and converter academies are more likely to do this.

In her time there she has been instrumental in the school progressing from special measures to good and the successful conversion to a sponsored academy as part of a multi-academy trust.

Funding is an issue across the board, and academies are seen by many as an increasingly attractive alternative to the traditional model, whether they are sponsored academies, or converted local authority schools.

The first is increasing school - to - school collaboration, and the second is increasing school - to - local collaboration so that local businesses, universities and colleges, faith groups, academy sponsors and the media all develop working relationships with the school.

The head teacher of a school judged to be Good or Outstanding, irrespective of its context, is being encouraged to sponsor other schools and become de facto the executive principal and then CEO of the multi academy trust created.

While MATs might have substantial experience integrating sponsored academies and getting ready for their first Ofsted, establishing a brand new free school from scratch presents an array of distinctive challenges.

Successful recruitment policy The School Recruitment Award, sponsored by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), went to Reach Academy in Feltham, Middlesex.

As National Director for Strategy and Quality Improvement for Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT)-- which has sponsored academies since 2009, and currently has 36 academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate goAcademies Trust (OAT)-- which has sponsored academies since 2009, and currently has 36 academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate goacademies since 2009, and currently has 36 academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate goacademies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate governance.