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The Principal of Christ the King will bring her experience of running a school rated 'Good' to the failing primary.
Chris Whitehouse
Chris Whitehouse was elected as Isle of Wight councillor for Newport West in May 2013.
Chris Whitehouse has previously been the Deputy Leader of South Bucks District Council.
He’s Managing Director of The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, which he founded in 1998.
He became Executive member for Children’s Services in January 2017, under the leadership of Conservative, Dave Stewart.
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The College has provisionally achieved 84% of its year 11 students achieving the benchmark standard of higher grade passes of a minimum of 5A* - C, which is an impressive 16% above the provisional national average of 68%.
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Julian Drinkall, the CEO of Academies Enterprise Trust, responds to what he calls Cllr Whitehouse's "continued misrepresentation of AET and the facts around Sandown Bay to the media" suggests future discussions "be held in a serious way".
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Conservative Press Release claims, "Cllr Ian Stephens, announced that 'half of' the pledges in the Independents’ election manifesto, 'Framework For Change' would be abandoned over the next few months". The Indies say the points in the Framework weren't 'pledges', pointing to its Executive Summary which stated, "It is aspirational and to suggest otherwise is to build castles of sand."
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Councillor says, "It is unthinkable that Councillors do not know the level of payments which they are in effect being asked to sanction."
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Concerns over lack of legally required documents in relation to the schools transport plan are raised by those opposed to abolition of discretionary concessionary fares for faith schools on the Island.
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This interview with Isle of Wight Conservative MP Andrew Turner got him to reveal some remarkable things.
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Questions were raised at last week's full council meeting about the educational attainment of home educated children on the Isle of Wight.
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Only two weeks ago - while in opposition - Cllr Chris Whitehouse called the Supreme Court case against Jon Platt a “vindictive harassment”, labelling it "an arrogance of power". Now he’s Executive member for Children’s Services, OnTheWight asked Cllr Whitehouse if he will withdraw the case.
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Councillor Whitehouse has issued a statement to the press calling for a 'clean and decent' election campaign.
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During Wednesday's full council meeting, several councillors upped and left before the end of the meeting, missing an important vote on how the council handles applications for fracking on the Isle of Wight. One reader was disgusted enough at their actions that she's shared the letter she sent them the next day.
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Inspector finds “much has been achieved in the past few weeks” in first Inspection report.
