Sentences with phrase «sponsored academies improve»

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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.

Academies which are underachieving will be «required to demonstrate they can improve significantly, or face the possibility of being moved to another sponsor».

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.

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

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.

Interestingly, the schools were also fond to improve results in the year before they become a sponsored academy.

Test results in sponsored primary academies improve at more than double the rate of non-academies and results for free school meals improve faster in those schools, the department said.

As a NET sponsored academy, the school would therefore have the opportunity to learn from others about how they have improved attendance, for example though high quality mentoring.

Where we have concerns about an academy trust's ability to improve performance, we will intervene to find a strong sponsor for the school.

As a sponsored academy it is backed by the Jack Petchey Foundation and since it opened results have vastly improved.

Morgan said the northern hub funding was for «top performing» academy sponsors to «improve performance for pupils in the most challenging areas».

«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»

The Local Schools Network says that pupils» results improved by 6.4 % more in non-academy primary schools than in similar sponsored academies between 2014 and 2015.

An academy in Norfolk will have its funding stopped and be re-brokered to a new sponsor if it doesn't improve its performance, government officials say.

9) The Department does not routinely collect information on what academy sponsors do to help schools improve.

Sponsor chains — but especially those needing to improve — should seek out successful practice and reflect on what their own chain could learn from it, encouraging this outward - facing approach among practitioners at all levels within their academies

Those that can improve will be supported to do so by our team of expert heads, and those that can not will be turned into academies under the leadership of our expert school sponsors - one of the best ways of improving underperforming schools.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

Then education secretary Nicky Morgan named five «top performing» academy sponsors as beneficiaries of the funding, and tasked them with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country».

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.

And what has happened to WCAT's share of the # 5m given out to «top performing» academy sponsors tasked with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country»?