The quickest way to find the Academy you`re looking for is to enter your name in the “By the name of school or city” search area on the Performance Tables homepage and click on the search. In sponsored academies, the sponsor is able to influence the school`s creation process, including its curriculum, ethos, specialization and buildings (if a new one is built). The sponsor also has the power to appoint governors to the Academy`s governing body. [Citation required] Academies were known in the early years as the City Academies, but the term was changed by a change in the Education Act in 2002 to Academies. [33] The term sponsored academies was applied retroactively to this type of N.A. Academy to distinguish them from other types of academies that were subsequently activated. This theme provides an overview of current support regimes for academies and free schools, as well as the functions of the school forum. Since 2013/14, more than 300 first academies have been reinstated (again paid by the state) or moved between trusts. In 2017/8, seven trusts that operate primary schools closed all their schools in search of another sponsor. The result is uncertain costs and costs, as the new foundation will be renamed and parents will have to pay for the new school uniform. New rules, staff and systems will be adopted. [99] The article highlights the academy cited, the Mossbourne Community Academy in Hackney, as “obviously the most popular school in the UK – at least with politicians” and “the best school in the country for value-added results”.

[22] An Academy foundation that operates more than one academy is known as a multi-academy trust, although sometimes the terms academy group or academy federation are used. A chain of academies is a group of trusts that work together as part of a common management structure. [17] [18] The introduction of academic schools has been rejected mainly by teachers` unions and by some high-ranking members of the Labour Party, such as the party`s former chairman, Lord Kinnock. [62] [63] Neil Kinnock criticized the Academy`s program and said it was a “distortion of choice” and risked creating a “sellers market” where “schools select parents and children over parents who choose schools.” [63] Academies have been compared to U.S. charter schools[93] which are publicly funded schools, which are largely independent of state and federal control.