Sentences with phrase «sponsored academies performed»
Of the types of academy, sponsored academies performed the worst across all areas, while free schools were the best - performing.
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The academies programme started under Labour, targeting low - performing schools that were taken over by a sponsor.
«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 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.
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.
Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.
A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council primaries that closed to become sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.
Many of these sponsored academies were established to boost standards at under - performing schools in disadvantaged areas under Tony Blair's Labour government.
Morgan said the northern hub funding was for «top performing» academy sponsors to «improve performance for pupils in the most challenging areas».
«The government must commit to removing the unnecessary red tape and give high performing maintained schools the option of becoming academy sponsors.
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».
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»?