Sentences with phrase «to become a sponsored academy»

Latest government figures, released last week, show that eight schools set to become sponsored academies in the next few months are still yet to find a sponsor.

«Local authorities are only required to cover a school's deficit costs if it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance.

«However, there could also be competing explanations: the amount of [DfE] funding available to sponsors when a school became a sponsored academy reduced by 83 per cent between 2010 and 2014.»

There is no data to support the secretary of state's argument that becoming a sponsored academy accelerates a school's improvement — there is evidence to show the opposite.»

«Yet Nicky Morgan is persisting with driving through Parliament a Bill that will force more and more schools to become sponsored academies whilst depriving parents and governors of any say in the matter.

The DfE response states that, for primaries, 92 % of sponsored academies improve on becoming a sponsored academy.

There are just six academies in Knowsley: two are Inadequate, three Require Improvement and one has not been inspected since becoming a sponsored academy (predecessor school: Inadequate).

It seems that this has led DfE to conclude that some LAs are introducing loans schemes as a way round the requirement that deficits of schools which become sponsored academies revert to the local authority, rather than as a supportive response to fears about future funding and the impact of the National Funding Formula.

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.

Woden Primary School was an inadequate - rated local - authority school that became a sponsored academy under the Central Learning Partnership Trust (CLPT).

A spokesperson for the Department for Education said: «Councils are only required to cover a school's deficit when it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance, and the deficit was accumulated under council control.

Among those that became sponsored academies in 2010 - 11, the rate of pupils leaving — to other schools, alternative provision, exclusions or from the education system entirely — rose from 4.8 per cent before academisation to 5.4 per cent afterwards.

The figures therefore indicate that 49,000 more children would remain in schools designated «inadequate» for longer if all such schools become sponsored academies.

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.

Furthermore, Ofsted inspection ratings were more likely to increase in schools that became sponsored academies 2002 - 2009 which corroborated Key Stage 4 performance gains.

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.

The department said work is underway «with an expectation that schools will become sponsored academies and join the hubs» throughout next year.

Internal government figures, released after a freedom of information request, show more than one in four inadequate secondary schools that became sponsored academies were rated inadequate again.

More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown.

The government wants to expand the role of the commissioners, to include decisions on whether underperforming and «coasting» schools should become sponsored academies.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Councils are only required to cover a school's deficit when it has become a sponsored academy after a prolonged period of underperformance, and the deficit was accumulated under council control.

«By requiring the Secretary of State to make an academy order in respect of a failing school, the clause will make it automatic that failing schools must become sponsored academies.

Pupils were also more likely to leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they were under local authority control, Schools Week reported.

The school, in Wellington, became a sponsored academy after a 2013 Ofsted report said it required improvement.

Not only could this pose a risk to standards, but LAs may be affected too: if a failing school is forced to become a sponsored academy, the LA has to write off any deficit.