Sentences with phrase «surplus school places»

Free schools have created surplus school places in areas where they aren't needed, which isn't a good use of tax payers» money, particularly in the middle of a school funding crisis.

It can not make sense for the government to continue to prioritise money for new free schools in areas with surplus school places when we have more than 100,000 primary pupils being taught in classes of more than 30.»

The Progressive Agreement contained a commitment that «the impact of current policy on surplus school places is reviewed, with emphasis on rural schools, to better take account of future growth trends».

Not exact matches

But no, as talk turned to rising class sizes in primary schools, and new schools being built in areas with surplus places, our leaders were catapulted into a classroom full to bursting with red - faced, Capri Sun - pumped, blue Smartie overdosing, sticky - suited schoolkids.

«Their belief that unfettered competition drives up school standards is reliant on surplus places.

What is more, the majority of these institutions are in the secondary phase, creating serious surplus capacity when there is a crying need for more primary school places.

Demonstrations have been taking place — and will continue to take place — at schools throughout the city protesting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's insistence that he needs to eliminate 6,000 teaching positions for budgetary reasons despite a $ 3 billion budget surplus.

No more free schools will be created where there is a surplus of school places;

He said those tenants that need to move to cheaper accommodation in the suburbs will not put undue pressure on school places, pointing out that there are 50,500 surplus places in London in primary schools and 31,000 in secondary schools.

The first phase, which continues until March 2019, focuses on reducing the poor condition of school buildings and providing pupil places where needed by reducing surplus capacity, and addressing specific Welsh medium and Faith based provision needs.

They have also generated an extra 20 places per 1,000 pupils in areas that already have a surplus of school places.

«This is pretty desperate stuff from NSN trying to justify spending taxpayers» money on schools where there may already be surplus places and justifying this by saying there's a social need.

«Creating surplus places is an inefficient use of public money and damages existing schools where spare capacity is created,» said Mr Barton.

Labour and the National Association of Head Teachers also blame the coalition government's free - school policy, which has allowed some new schools to be opened in areas that already have surplus places.

«When this government sets up free schools in places where there are already surplus places supposedly to create more choice, it does so by taking money away from other kids in real need of a school place,» he will say.

Shadow schools minister Kevin Brennan said: «David Cameron and Michael Gove should be delivering for children but instead they're ignoring the crisis in primary places and setting up new schools where there is already a surplus of school places.

In February, Northumberland Council launched a seven - week consultation which set out plans to completely overhaul the education system in the west of the county, where there is a 30 - per - cent surplus of places, and many schools still run on a three - tier system.

I suspect that Lambeth Council's use if the word «surplus «school places does not take into account the numbers of Lambeth primary school pupils who attend a secondary school outside the borough.

«A degree of surplus places is necessary in encouraging school choice and competition between schools and this will provide some benefit where standards are increased, but there is also cost to providing surplus places which should be noted.»

«Michael Gove needs to stop wasting money on under - subscribed free schools, allowing free schools to set up where there are surplus places and forcing schools to become academies, and accept that good schools come in all shapes and sizes.»

Despite late decisions over the # 18m site, many will point to the predictability of a «near empty» school given the borough already had more than 200 surplus places.

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It appears, then, that the effect on existing schools of a new school opening in areas where there are already surplus places will be ignored.

Teachers did not need full qualifications and the schools were sited mostly where there were already surplus places.