Building on success
Friday 17 July 2009
A recent White Paper sets out some specific proposals aimed at enhancing the specialist schools programme.
The key proposals of Your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st-century schools system are:
- a renewed emphasis on specialist schools as centres of excellence in their areas
- a simpler accountability regime, with School Improvement Partners (SIPs) taking decisions about schools' specialist status locally, in line with rigorous national benchmarking
- a commitment to build on the High Performing Specialist Schools (HPSS) programme so as to reward the best schools for supporting improvement.
Further information is available here.
More detailed guidance for schools will be published in the autumn.
