Sentence examples for sponsored academies from inspiring English sources
The evidence on sponsored academies, the supposed "silver bullet" for school improvement, has also worn thin, thanks largely to the diligent research of my Local Schools Network colleague Henry Stewart.
Sponsored academies continued to lag behind local authority secondary schools with a 10.2 percentage point gap in GCSE pass rates, unchanged from the previous year.
They are known as sponsored academies.
Sponsored academies do usually outperform their predecessor schools.
Seventeen of these are independently run, privately sponsored academies, which cost up to £26m each.
It has splurged money on independently run and privately sponsored Academies.
A DfE spokeswoman says: "We have seen many sponsored academies dramatically improve their results.
In community schools, the figure is 56%and49%9% in sponsored academies.
Maintained schools saw 56% of their pupils pass, while sponsored academies had just 45.8%.
Well-established sponsored academies in deprived areas have made particularly impressive progress," Wilshaw said.
Sponsored academies are turning around hundreds of underperforming schools and ensuring pupils are given every chance to fulfil their potential.
