Sentence examples for extend academies from inspiring English sources
Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman welcomed the continuity suggested by Labour's plans to extend academies rather than reinvent the school system.
There was, in no particular order, a drive to extend academy schools, only slightly diluted since the budget, hot-headed measures on terrorism, including a return of the snooper's charter and a plan to criminalise "extremism" before making clear what it means, a useful reform of adoption (a personal passion of the justice secretary) and then the centrepiece – his very own prison reforms.
A Conservative Party source said: "The Liberal Democrats helped us massively extend academy freedoms by voting for the Academies Act in 2010.
Since 2010, FOI has been extended to cover academies, companies wholly owned by more than one public authority, the Association of Chief Police Officers, Ucas and the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, said: "Our big priorities will be to speed up the process for tackling failing schools; extend our academies programme to tackle 'coasting' schools; and deliver on our commitment to open new free schools.
Labour's education spokesman Stephen Twigg announced last month that a future Labour government would extend these academy flexibilities to all state schools.
In education, the government needs to extend the freedom academies have to all schools in the state system.
While an education bill on extending the academy programme will be a scaled-down version of the original idea to force all schools to convert by 2022, it will reiterate the aim of full academisation and create powers to force change on schools run by "failing" local education authorities.
Telefonica's workaround for plugging this ideas gap is thus to outsource "talent detection" to a global network of Wayra academies — which now extends to 14 academies in 12 countries.
Such gaps extend to the academy's current makeup and are most evident in the members-only exhibitions that are held every other year, alternating with invitational shows.
