The Lab School has used Mytonomy Plus (the startup's premium, school-facing version) to create its own private "channel" for its students, so that they can home in on content from alumni of their school in particular, while the school itself has a level of oversight in terms of the content being uploaded.
Pupil premiums, school dinners for infants, extended child care – they may not be enough to set against free schools and the constant undermining of Ofsted, but they are still good measures.
New Jersey teachers say the state's own analysis shows that even if every teacher took a pay freeze and contributed 1.5 percent of his salary to health premiums, school districts would still have a budget shortfall of at least $849.3 million, caused in large part by the governor's $820 million in state education cuts.
Met – The coalition brought in a pupil premium giving schools extra money for each pupil on free school meals.
At present the government gives out the pupil premium to schools on the basis of the number of children that have been in receipt of free school meals.
The Lib Dems also secured a premium for schools with poorer pupils.
The pupil premium provides schools with an extra £900 per disadvantaged child in government grant, and it is calculated based on the number of pupils eligible for free school meals.
Labour's negotiators offered all sorts of attractive policy compromises to the Lib Dems over the past 24 hours – voting reform, pupil premium in schools, their tax plans, an end to Heathrow expansion, scrapping of ID cards, among them.
But he insisted there were also "many areas of common ground" such as a "pupil premium" in schools, a low-carbon economy, tax reform for the low paid and shared opposition to Labour's ID cards scheme.
"Unfortunately, although the pupil premium helps schools by providing extra resources for poor students, local authorities serving the poorest communities have been hardest hit by budget cuts during the last five years".
