the education policy institute looked at cases where pupils changed school without moving home.r remove children for academic reasons. here‘s our education correspondent sean coughlan. the education policy institute has been examining the numbers of children moving between secondary schools. it says, over five years, there have been 55,000 moves, which are unexplained. almost a quarter of these cases were concentrated in 230 schools. these are cases where pupils have moved to a different school without an explanation, such as their families moving to another part of the country. emma parker‘s sonjames has autism, and she believes his school tried to remove him, because they could not accommodate his condition. due to james‘ complex needs, he had several exclusions between the october and the december, based around his ability to communicate. injanuary, the school called a meeting and decided they would prefer me to manage, move him to a different school. the researchers at the education policy institute say part of the shuffling of pupils around is caused by schools wanting to t

a report from the education policy institute found 55,000 unexplained moves over a five year period. pupils in our schools today. and it's happening in a relatively small number of schools, where this kind of behaviour is taking place. and we need to really understand what's driving that behaviour. is it accountability from government? is it funding pressures? or are schools genuinely struggling to meet the needs of our most vulnerable pupils? head teachers say there is an uncomfortable reality that some schools could be trying to offer all __ my schools could be trying to offer all —— my off—load pupils. they also say there are legitimate reasons why pa rents would move there are legitimate reasons why parents would move children to a different school. they said they we re different school. they said they were not allowed to remove pupils on the basis of academic results. anyone who does is breaking the law. the headlines on bbc news... climate change protestors continue a fourth day of action in the capital. nearly 400 people have been arrested and three charged. facebook bans a do

the education policy institute says it found more than 50,000 moves from secondary schools in england to get good grades. the government has written to schools warning this is illegal. bra nwen jeffreys reports. this is bailey. he went missing from the system until this head teacher gave him another chance. just a few weeks until his gcses. for bailey, it's the end of a journey. he started at one secondary but struggled, then moved to another. they persuaded bailey to go to home education, taking him off their school roll into two years of wilderness. i feel like it really took away my ability to learn. what did those two years of not being in school do to you? i broke down on myself, i lost myself. social anxiety and depression started to really creep up on me. they really just make you want to get into a ball and ignore the outside world. you shouldn't be pushed away and made to feel unwanted. you should be engaged with the school and they should make you feel like they're going to help you and develop you as a person. this research says, as a year group moves through secondary, the

the education policy institute says it raises concerns about off—rolling where schools try to remove table performances. bra nwen jeffreys reports. this is bailey, he went missing from the system until this teacher gave him a second chance. for bailey it is the end of the journey. he started at one secondary but struggled. he then moved to another. they dissuaded bailey to go to home education. taking them off their school well into two years of wilderness. i feel like it really took away my ability to learn. this research says that as a year group moves through secondary, there are 55,000 unexplained moves. 22% are peoples moving from just 330 schools. they lose an average of 30 pupils from each age group. these types of moves, they are unregulated. there is no transparency or data and we don't really know what is going on with them. as a head teacher, jason took a big risk. the school will be held responsible for bailey's results.|j think we have got to reward inclusivity and we have got to recognise the schools who are picking up the pieces and giving the stu d e nts picking up th

the education policy institute looked at cases where pupils changed school without moving home.y institute has been examining the numbers of children moving between secondary schools. it says over five years there have been 55,000 moves which are unexplained. almost a quarter of these cases were concentrated in 230 schools. these are cases where pupils have moved to a different school without an explanation, such as their families moving to another part of the country. emma parker's sonjames has autism and she believes his school tried to remove him because they could not accommodate his condition. due to james' complex needs he had several exclusions between the october and the december, based around his ability to communicate. in january the school called a meeting and decided they would prefer me to manage, move him to a different school. the researchers at the education policy institute said part of the shuffling of pupils around is caused by schools wanting to take pupils off their rolls and the report says it often affects the children needing the most help. it really matt

the education policy institute has examined what happened to 86,000 families who did not get their first—choiceace. about one in seven of those initially missing out go on to get a place from an appeal orjoining a waiting list. the world's biggest primark is opening its doors to shoppers in birmingham. covering 161,000 square feet over five floors, and with a disney cafe plus two other eateries, a barber shop and beauty studio, as well as homewares and fashion, it could spell a new generation for the department store. primark said the store was a chance for it to do something special. good morning, it is 10:05am. jack shepherd, the man who killed 24—year—old charlotte brown in a speedboat crash on the river thames during theirfirst date, is appearing at the old bailey after ten months on the run. he's just admitted failing to attend his trial and sentence hearing last year. shepherd was convicted of charlotte's manslaughter in his absence, while he was in hiding in georgia. shepherd eventually handed himself in and has spent the last three months in prison awaiting extradition. his plane from t

england are much more likely to succeed in getting a school place on appeal, according the education policy institute out go on to get a place from an appeal orjoining a waiting list. the world's biggest primark is opening its doors to shoppers in birmingham. covering 161,000 square foott over five floors, and with a disney cafe plus two other eateries, a barber shop and beauty studio, as well as homewares and fashion, it could spell a new generation for the department store. primark said the store was a chance for it to do something "special". the battle to preserve historic churches is a constant and expensive one, so in an attempt to raise money for repairs, some are opening their doors to campers, or "champers", as they're known. john maguire has been to find out more. st edmund's has stood on this site in rochdale for almost 150 years. but time and weather is no respecter of age or beauty. the emergency repair bill here is £165,000. it looks pretty good from first impressions, but, when you start looking closely, the church is actually in quite a dire state, particularly when we have a rain stor

a report from the education policy institute found 55 thousand unexplained moves over a five year periodto relax and build their confidence by reading aloud. john maguire reports. if you need any help, you just askjonesy. 0k. one, two, three, four... d is for dog. for some children in this primary school in llanelli, jonesy is making a real difference. because he helps me, he helps me and he is really good and that's all. do you enjoy coming to these reading sessions with him? yes, i do. the dog helps the children to relax, and they can then focus their attention on reading aloud with no fear of being judged. we have a few children within the school who are fearful of pets, so establishing that value of respect and care for animals and love towards animals, i think it really does work on that front. in terms of the academic progress, we've got one little boy who is only two weeks into the scheme but his mum has already said, "i can't believe the difference we're seeing now." he's going home each night and wanting to read in readiness for the session he has withjonesy on friday. it couldn

the education policy institute says it found more than 50,000 moves from secondary schools in england written to schools warning this is illegal. bra nwen jeffreys reports this is bailey. he went missing from the system until this head teacher gave him another chance. just a few weeks until his gcses. for bailey, it's the end of a journey. he started at one secondary but struggled, then moved to another. they persuaded bailey to go to home education, taking him off their school roll into two years of wilderness. i feel like it really took away my ability to learn. what did those two years of not being in school do to you? i broke down on myself, i lost myself. social anxiety and depression started to really creep up on me. they really just make you want to get into a ball and ignore the outside world. you shouldn't be pushed away and made to feel unwanted. you should be engaged with the school and they should make you feel like they're going to help you and develop you as a person. this research says, as a year group moves through secondary, there are 55,000 unexplained moves. 23% are

i'm from the institute for higher education policy. i had a messaging question. in this conversation today and in the affordability conversations more broadly, there's two perspectives. the first is that we expand it to higher education because it's a human right. the other is transactional. we should invest in it, because it's a driver of economic returns. there are ways to approach free college from both perspectives and we'll see that as this is part of presidential campaigns and conversations on hea. i'm wondering which is stronger for the public and for policy makers and how do we either choose or balance them in policy? >> i'm going to piggyback off what you -- the previous person just said for tennessee. you really want this on the books. whatever messaging is necessary, those benefits will happen. at least for tennessee it has. if we get into an argument about messaging and all the things that we want to be at the forefront of free college, trust me, you won't have the bandwidth or the capacity or the will to do so. there will be too many debates about wh

devos' education department is mandating that texas tech university stop factoring race into admission decisions, making it the first institution of higher education to cave into your backward policies. we all know the supreme court has repeatedly ruled that universities may use affirmative action to increase diversity. so, mr. president, let me tell you what i think about this tired old conservative crew said that i'm not really sure you have an interest in. affirmative action started under a republican president named richard nixon. it was to try and undo what the government did, and that is, by law, discriminating against certain people of color, specifically blacks, being able to go to certain universities and colleges and other educational institutions. the reason why the government should enforce and encourage racial diversity is because the government enforced laws that made it legal and mandatory to discriminate. if the government had not made the laws and enforced the laws, the government would not be called in now to make up what the government did. that is not charity. that is an obligation to undo what you did. lot of life into our subaru forester. (dad) it's good to be

policy institute at the university of nevada las vegas. here are some of their comments about the state of education. pre-k wasn't as widespread as it needed to be and still isn't. then we began to realize elementary schools -- our elementary schools weren't getting the job done and so it kind of got stopped in its tracks because we weren't ready for it. what's the biggest cost for other universities? remedial education. it should not be necessary. i think what's happened over the is another years look. child we make sure every gets a decent education? i don't know that we have the answers yet. --ause the schools home is a component and the areas kids grew up in our opponents. we as a society i think oh every kid of a decent education. it is going to take all three of those components to get up -- to get it. if you are poor and live in a areen neighborhood, there probably not educational activities at home and in many cases not much in the community. clubs,ls clubs, boys ymcas, things in low income humidity communities come of those activities are absolutely essential if we are going to do a better j

policy institute. here's a portion where the two leaders discussed the state of education. >> we were not starting early kids. pre-k was not as widespread as it needed to be and still isn't. we began to realize our elementary schools were not getting the job done, and it got stopped in its tracks. we were not ready for it. costis one of the biggest at unlv and other universities? remedial education. it drives of the cost of education and it should not be necessary. i think what has happened is over the last 15, 20 years, is another look. how do we make sure that every child gets an education? i don't know that we have the answers to that. home is a component, it the communities the kids grow up in our component. owes a society, i think every kid a decent education, but it will take all three components to make it happen. if you are poor and live in a rotten neighborhood, there are probably not books at home and educational activities at home, and in many cases, not much in the community. club, boysthe friars and girls club, ymca, those type of activities are essential if we are going to do a better job

education and the future of work. reid join former republican house speaker john boehner of the university of at the publicas policy institute and they offer their insights into the progress of the current congress. >> please welcome to the stage, the honorable harry reid. [applause] >> there are certain things we , words and phrases that are overused and one of those is great american. i want everybody to understand that i will introduce right now a great american. proficientunningly and efficient background. he was the senior policy advisor to president bill clinton, elected to congress and was head of the d ccc. then, he became the chief of staff to president obama. i have watched the top jobs in washington. attorney general, secretary of state, there is no job that is more important other than the present of united states than the presence chief of staff. he was obama's chief of staff during the most successful congress in the history of our country. during the time he was chief of staff, we were able to accomplish some good things for a country. the more most important successful congress. it came to read after the depr

then we will actually come up with direct policy solutions for the impacts of institutional racism across all sectors of society. we have it in health care, educationd in criminal justice. >> we have to balance the scales of economic just in this country. not only slavery but decades and decades of overtly racist policies that have excluded african-americans. i've always believed this original sin of slavery, this grave injustice has never been addressed the way it should be and that the only way we're ever going to truly be able to move forward and heal as a nation is if we do address it. >> i think we need that commission because we need to examine the systematic patterns of inequality that have gotten us to where we are and then look at how we can apply resources with intention to reverse some of that inequality. i think reparations has become a sort of political cudgel especially with the right using it to scare people. >> sophia, there was a time you wouldn't even hear this raised. and i'm talking when i was a teenager joining the movement there's always been a movement for reparations but now we want to put it main stream in a presidential ra

policy institute at the university of nevada las vegas. here are some of their comments about the state of education.e were not starting early enough with kids. pre-k was not as widespread as it needed to be and still isn't. then we began to realize our elementary schools were not really getting the job done. it kind of got stopped in its tracks because we were not ready for it. what is one of the biggest costs and other universities has? remedial education for their incoming students. it drives up the cost of education. frankly, it cannot be necessary. i think what has happened over the last say 15, 20 years is another look. how do we make sure that every child has the chance at a decent education? i don't know that we have the answers to that yet. acause the schools are component. but home is a component in the community's bet the kids grow up in our a component. society i think of every kid a chance of a decent education. it is going to take all three of those components to make it happen. if you are poor, live in a rotten neighborhood, there are probably not books at home, not educational activit

the brookings institution center on children and families and a staff economist on president bush's economic advisers. she worked on federal student lending policy as well as other education and labor issues. she received a b.s. in mathematics and economics in albany and a ph.d. in economics from columbia. >>> james quail is president of the institute for college access and success. nonprofit organization that works on issues of affordabil y affordability, accountability, inequity in education. he previously served on the domestic policy council and senior roles in u.s. department of education, u.s. house of representatives and the u.s. senate. he taught at university of michigan's ford school of public policy and attended stanford university and harvard law school. we appreciate all the witnesses for being here today. we look forward to your testimony. let me remind the witnesses we have your written statements and they will appear in full in the hearing record. pursuant to committee rule 7d and committee practice, each is asked to limit your oral presentation to a five-minute summary of your written statement. let me remind the witnesses the title 18, u.s. code section

policies. this is just the tip of the iceberg. the kinds of work that you all are doing and your various institutions and with the projects that help educate the rest of us as well as the work on the ground is the first step, so thank you so much. i promised more time for questions. we have a little less than 20 minutes and i am sure there are people that want to share experiences and offer insight. i am going to open the floor. do i run around with the microphone? raise your hand, please, if you have a question you would like to ask the panel. i just had a quick question. i wanted to find out what are some ways -- i am a muslim myself and i want to know what are some ways we perpetually -- perpetuate islamic ideas either consciously or subconsciously, what are some examples in our own leaders and how to identify -- how do we identify that and work on it? following, bade muslims, good muslims, and between muslims, and then me. i am of the opinion that no matter what a muslim does, it should not be a rationalization for blaming the group. .hat is the basis of racism for muslims, again, is to think we have to go through a 12 step program the

policies. this is just the tip of the iceberg. i hate to say it. and so the kinds of work that ya'll are doing, in your various institutions, and with the projects that help educate the rest of us, as well as the work on the ground is the first step. so thank you so much. i promised more time for questions. we have a little less than 20 minutes. and i'm sure this are people who want to share experiences and offer insights on. i'm going to open up the floor i don't know how this works do i run around with the microphone. do you have a microphone? okay great. so raise your hand please if you have a question that you would like to ask the panel. >> hi, i just had a quick question. so i wanted to find out what are some ways that muslims, i'm a muslim myself, and i would want to know what are some ways that we perpetuate islamophobic ideas, even consciously, or subconsciously, intentionally, unintentionally, what are some examples in our own leaders in our communities have done so and how do we identify that? >> well, let's say the following. there are bad muslims, good muslims, in between muslims, and then there's me. i am of the opinion that no matter what a muslim

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a report from the education policy institute found 55,000 unexplained moves over a 5—year period, raisingd "off—rolling". a department for education spokesman said it's against the law to remove pupils on the basis of academic results. it's affecting the most vulnerable pupils in our schools today. and it's happening in a relatively small number of schools, where this kind of behaviour is taking place. and we need to really understand what's driving that behaviour. is it accountability from government? is it funding pressures? or are schools genuinely struggling to meet the needs of our most vulnerable pupils? north korea has test—fired a new "tactical guided weapon" with a "powerful warhead" according to the country's state media. it's the first test of this kind since denuclearisation talks between leader kim jong—un and us president donald trump ended without agreement in february. last week, mr kim said mr trump needed to have the "right attitude" for talks to continue. rabbits have been hopping around britain for much longer than previously thought — that's according to scientists wh