Sentences with phrase «sponsored academies received»

Not exact matches

The academy conversion model (initially common in schools in special measures, known as «sponsor» academies) is now chosen by many good / outstanding schools (known as «convertor» academies) as it turns a school into an independent business (not for profit) that receives funding directly from central government instead of a local authority.

Under Labour, academies had to have sponsors - who invested up to # 2m in return for receiving state funding directly from central government.

One last comment, as I understand it when a community school becomes an academy then if it is a sponsored conversion (e.g. because the school is failing and deemed to require substantial investment to turn it around) then the sponsoring MAT receives additional funding.

-LRB-...) Among the first two schools to express an interest in the Charter Institute at Erskine are S.C. Virtual Charter School and Cyber Academy of South Carolina, a pair of online schools that received a warning this spring that their current sponsor might revoke their charters due to years of poor performance that lagged far behind state averages.