Sentence examples for to tackle underperformance from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, in Wales the education minister Huw Lewis announced a new programme named Schools Challenge Cymru, based on the successful London Challenge begun in 2003 to tackle underperformance in the capital's state schools.

"In high-performing localities, we appear to be confronting problems that don't exist, rather than concentrating on using flexibility and autonomy as weapons to tackle underperformance where standards have to be raised – the original objective of academies.

rapid intervention to tackle underperformance.

"There is an urgent need for E-Act to take action to tackle underperformance in a relatively large number of academies in the trust and to ensure that pupils' achievement rises to a good standard".

The surest route to tackling underperformance, ministers aver, is to remove the service from council control.

"We are also increasing the number of good school places available by tackling underperformance, responding to parental demand by allowing innovative new schools to open under the free schools programme and allowing good schools to expand without the restrictions and bureaucracy they have faced in the past".

She criticised the government's education and adoption bill for failing to contain any measures for tackling underperformance in academies and free schools, despite figures showing that 18.24% of these schools have been judged to require improvement or be inadequate by Ofsted.

I look back at my time now and there are mistakes that I made – in terms of not being as confident in tackling underperformance, or not understanding the need to develop relationships as well as I do now.

But the Department for Education said: "We are increasing the number of good school places by tackling underperformance and opening new free schools and academies.

Ministers have pledged to tackle "pockets of underperformance" and Nick Gibb, the schools minister, has written to the local authorities with the worst results to demand an explanation and to know what they are doing to raise standards.

The shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, called for more powers to be developed in local areas to help tackle educational underperformance.