Sentences with phrase «schools in areas»

Soulbury - paid officers are specialist, professional local authority officers providing strategic support to schools in areas such as school improvement and educational psychology.

Schools in those areas got a head start when Gov. Scott Walker proposed expanding vouchers to school districts with low - performing schools as measured by a new state report card.

Title I is a federally funded program that offers additional federal dollars to support schools in areas with high free - reduced lunch numbers.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt blamed the Conservatives for spending «hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on a few free schools in areas where there are no shortages of places».

«With their role placed at the heart of their community, councils want to be able to hold all schools in their areas to account for the quality of the education they provide.

The scandal comes at a time when a recent survey on school governance carried out by the University of Bath and the National Governors Association (NGA)-- the most extensive of its kind to date — revealed that finding and keeping school governors in tough schools in areas of high deprivation is not easy.

Focus on improving the retention of science teachers within the profession, and also in schools of highest need, for example in schools in areas of higher deprivation.

The Sats data released by the Department for Education in August could not give a reliable figure for attainment in 20 local authorities, because so many schools in those areas had taken part in the boycott.

It compares Title I schools with migrant students to all Title I schools in the areas of social, demographic, and organizational characteristics and the implementation of Title I provisions between 1998 - 99 and 2000 - 01.

The strategy proposed by the task force relies on a combination of developing demand, building capacity, and transforming institutions to fill empty seats, increase capacity in existing schools, reopen closed schools, and build new Catholic schools in areas that have seen the greatest growth in the Latino population.

Analysis published by the CentreForum think tank on Wednesday found as many as 52 local authorities could be unviable — meaning all schools in those areas would have to convert.

The findings from Linder and Rhodenbaugh are summed up thusly: «This school should be considered a model for other public schools in the areas of finance, shared leadership, and student growth.»

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/peterborough-councils-school-improvement-support-effective It would be unacceptable to enforce conversion on all schools in areas such as Peterborough.

Ofsted has criticised local authorities over the past year for the performance of schools in their areas, even where most schools are academies and therefore beyond their powers of intervention.

Secondary schools in areas where the brightest pupils are selected for grammar schools will be more likely to be classed as coasting under the government's newly revealed definitions.

Support for future school leaders and development opportunities for talented teachers were on the agenda as School Standards Minister Nick Gibb visited Greater Manchester for the launch of a government funded programme to help schools in areas of greatest need.

This will recruit a pool of 1,500 high - achieving teachers over five years who would be deployed to schools in areas with weak results.

Not only does Lewis develop curriculum and deliver online instruction for Adams State University, she is an ASCD faculty member, who works with schools in the areas of data processes, team building, CCSS Literacy and Math, formative assessment, and critical thinking.

Before 2010 the Labour policy for academies focused solely on schools in areas with a track record of under - performance.

Schools in areas identified as rural (by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) will gain on average 1.3 per cent more — mostly through proposals for a lump sum and sparsity funds.

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.

Labour's Tristram Hunt blamed the government for «ploughing hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on free schools in areas where there are no shortages of school places».

Datalab found 51 of the 286 secondary schools in these areas would be considered coasting using the school's past three years of achievement data.

She consults with many schools in all areas of behavior management, schoolwide interventions, and best instructional practices.

Teach First's programme is designed to offer staff at schools in areas of disadvantage the skills and support they need to succeed and deliver improvements for pupils» education — at no cost to the school.

We pride ourselves on having over a century of shared years of service rendered to the public schools in the areas of general and special education services.

A spokesperson added that the new national funding formula would ensure schools in areas with the highest need attract extra funding.

Additionally, charter schools in areas with a high percentage of poor or Hispanic students appear to provide a special advantage for their students, as compared to the neighboring public school.

The newspapers and media will ignore the multiple measures index and simply produce a listing of 4 star, 3 star, etc. schools in their areas with 1 star schools under the same banner of failing schools.

But what of all the good and outstanding primary schools in these areas?

They also believe that children in care, who statistically have considerably lower attainment scores than their peers, could be lowering the published outcomes of primary schools in the areas where numbers have dramatically increased.

There will be many outstanding schools in areas with a high proportion of underperforming schools that would rightly be outraged if they were forced into academisation for the sin of being located in a such a local authority area.

The three - year old facilities program has recently made it possible for charter schools to serve the state's most disadvantaged students, particularly for schools in areas like Oakland.

The performance of regional schools commissioners will be judged by how many schools in their areas convert to academy status, despite education secretary Nicky Morgan's public stance that she has no preference for any particular school type.

Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education secretary, writing in today's edition of Schools Week, said many secondary schools in the areas singled out by Ofsted were already academies.

She also revealed the department was considering pre-emptively buying sites for schools in areas with a shortfall of places.

We have seen # 250 million wasted on providing free schools in areas they are not needed.

Schools in these areas will never have minority populations of 90 % or greater since very few minorities live in these white cities.

To benefit school choice, finding a way to subliminally make it more difficult for public schools in areas and states with commonly high tax deductions seems to be an appropriate course of action.

We are committed to fighting all forms of academic selection, and phasing out grammar schools in areas where they now operate.

Both trusts operate schools in areas of Manchester with significant social and economic deprivation.

One of the benefits of this new category is that proposals can now be brought forward with the explicit intention of creating more integrated schools in areas where existing schools are often divided on racial lines.

As part of the new role, Clark will be responsible for overseeing the growth of academies in the region and will monitor the performance of 800 academies and free schools in areas including Bristol, Swindon and Cornwall.

Lawyers at green group ClientEarth also expressed surprise that City Hall did not publish a report in full in 2013 on primary schools in areas with nitrogen dioxide levels breaching EU legal limits.

Public schools in areas of increasing property values and other living costs can not simply relocate teachers to areas with reasonable property values and short commutes.

While we await specific criteria for the next wave of centrally - funded free schools, the local authority «presumption» programme continues to offer a chance to set up good new schools in areas of pressing need.

International Horizons offers consulting, planning services, programs, and systems to support schools in the areas of violence prevention, health and safety hazards including environmental issues, and educational accountability.

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.

He said: «Underperforming schools in areas that struggle to recruit the best teachers will be key beneficiaries of the NTS, fulfilling our commitment to delivering educational excellence everywhere.»

Ofsted Chief inspector Amanda Spielman has recognised the excellent leadership and management it takes to turn around schools in areas of high disadvantage.