Sentence examples for underperforming academies from inspiring English sources

But he warned: "The government should be equally tough on underperforming academies and academy chains – not being afraid to take schools away from poorly performing sponsors, and allowing schools the right to instigate their own moves between chains.

It was recently revealed that moving 16 underperforming academies to different sponsors cost the taxpayer £3m.

Mrs Morgan said underperforming academies should be "held to account".

She said the Department for Education had already issued 122 warning notices to underperforming academies and free schools and changed the sponsor in 118 cases.

While the response to underachieving local authority schools has been to turn them into academies, there have been questions about the action taken when academies are underperforming.

RSCs are responsible for intervening in academies where governance is inadequate, and have wide-ranging responsibilities to get involved when academies are underperforming.

Where academies are underperforming, we take action – this can involve issuing a pre-warning notice and ultimately changing the sponsor if there is no improvement".

"Where academies are underperforming, we take action - this can involve issuing a pre-warning notice and ultimately changing the sponsor if there is no improvement".

The ATL teachers' union said "the government seems to be finally waking up to the fact that some academies underperform".

Underperforming schools yield underperforming employees.

Instead, the new legislation will include sweeping powers for the DfE to force schools in "underperforming" local authorities to convert to academy status.