So, to recap: politicians have at various times cooked up schemes like superheads, beacon schools, education action zones, academies, academy chains and free schools.
There are four academies in the City Sheffield Springsgs Academy, Sheffield Park Academy, Firth Park Academy and Parkwood Academy.
That is especially true of schools like North Star Academy, Academy Charter High School in South Belmar, South Boston Harbor Academy in Boston, the KIPP schools in Houston and the Bronx, and dozens of other successful inner-city charter schools.
However, this speaks to a wider problem with the chaotic system of academies and academy chains.
Hartford High was redesigned into four academies: the law and government academy; the nursing academy; the engineering academy; and an academy for ninth graders, each with about 400 students.
The United States has four major academies: the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
We've all got good academies, there's no academy that isn't producing players.
Review the structure of academy chains, giving academies freedom to move between chains.
I also have an enthusiastic project in the Aspire academy [a sporting academy based in Qatar].
No prizes for guessing that the list of approved sponsors includes only academies and academy chains, says Harris.
Lord Harris of Peckham, the millionaire chair of Carpetright, supports eight south London city academies, Wellington academy in Wiltshire is sponsored by Wellington College, Peter Jones of Dragons' Den sponsors an enterprise academy, and Microsoft sponsors IT academies.
