Clause 5 - School improvement partners
Education and Inspections Bill
3:45 pm
Christopher Chope (Christchurch, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 17, in clause 5, page 3, line 23, after ‘maintain’, insert
‘that is not highly performing’.
No. 18, in clause 5, page 3, line 25, at end insert—
‘(1A)A school is “highly performing” if it meets such standards as the Secretary of State shall by regulation prescribe.’.
No. 19, in clause 5, page 3, line 30, at end insert—
‘(2A)Where a school fails to improve within two years of the appointment of a school improvement partner, a new school improvement partner shall be appointed.
(2B)A person appointed as a school improvement partner who has been replaced twice as a school improvement partner under the provisions of subsection (2A) shall cease to be an accredited person under subsection (2).’.
No. 20, in clause 5, page 3, line 30, at end insert—
‘()The Secretary of State shall publish his departmental policies in relation to the appointment of school improvement partners.’.
No. 15, in clause 5, page 3, line 40, at end insert—
‘“coasting”, in relation to a maintained school, means a school which in the previous academic year was in the third quartile nationally of the value added measure of school performance;’.
No. 16, in clause 5, page 4, line 4, at end insert—
‘“under-performing”, in relation to a maintained school, means a school which in the previous academic year was in the fourth quartile nationally of the value added measure of school performance.’.