And even this idea leaves it up to Ofsted to decide what constitutes a failing school.
No child should be trapped in a failing school just because of geography or financial circumstance.
Who say that turning around a failing school means just throwing good money after bad.
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"We knew when we started at a failing school, we were trying to change lives, " said Ms Ward.
Dinner lady and school cleaner Dorothy Winner, a head teacher who had turned around a failing school, was knighted.
Equal access to public education has been gained, but what is the value of access to a failing school?
Many experts say rebuilding the staff may be painful, but it's often the only way to improve a failing school.
Thorpe Bay School in Southend, Essex, was a failing school for six years but has just come out of special measures.
There are already provisions for paying governors in certain circumstances, such as where temporary governing bodies are installed to turn around a failing school.
In Britain, similarly, Surrey county council is taking bids to run a failing school, and the government is exploring other ways to expand company involvement.
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It creates a cultural climate where failing students refer to the same built-in excuse: if I attend a failing school, then what chance do I have?
But a persistent crime problem, made worse by staggering poverty, widespread unemployment and a failing school system, threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root.
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They may not, however, select students: they are required to take the most local ones, even when an academy replaces that vanishingly rare thing, a failing church school.
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Applicants can apply on behalf of a brand-new school, a restart of a persistently failing one, or a complete redesign of an existing, higher-performing school.
After a quick sandwich lunch we were off again, to a 'failing' school threatened with closure by the LEA. We were met at the school gates by several Year 11 boys, immaculately dressed and well versed in courtesy.
The Department for Education (DfE) said it "cannot just stand by if a school is failing children".
WMU's Dr. Dunn said the need for a medical school is reflected in the high percentage of high-caliber applicants failing to win a slot each year in a U.S. medical school.
They say most of the powers they have to intervene in underperforming schools can be used only once Ofsted has put a school into a "failing" category and that they have less freedom than the trusts which run academies to intervene in struggling schools.
School admissions remain highly competitive in some areas, with one in seven pupils failing to get a place at their first choice of secondary school this year.
Year after year, Gallup finds that American parents think very highly of their own schools, while giving the school system as a whole a failing grade.
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Shafia and Yahya admitted on the stand that they were upset with Zainab for running off to marry a Pakistani man they hated, that Sahar wore revealing clothes and had secret boyfriends, and Geeti was failing in school and calling social workers to get her out of a home in turmoil.
In terms of school, after nearly failing out of Scaitcliffe School, Branson transferred to the Stowe School, a boarding school in Buckinghamshire, England.
The 49-year-old mother, a laundry worker, had denied failing to send her daughter to school without reasonable excuse.
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David Blunkett, the education secretary, has trampled over localism with peremptory instructions on school standards, and a willingness to wade into failing schools.
The John Madejski Academy (named after the biggest local benefactor, a publishing millionaire who owns Reading Football Club) has replaced one failing school.
It was a reform of secondary education - including Excellence in Cities and the specialist schools and academies programmes - tackling failing schools systematically and embedding higher standards and a culture of aspiration school by school.
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The lead plaintiff in this class action, Van-Ness Crawford, has three sons who are forced to attend a high school at which more than 80% of the students are failing mathematics.
The Massachusetts Board of Education, for example, fearing most students would flunk, has voted to set low passing scores--just above failing--for a new test students must take to graduate from high school.
But this is what I have to deal with when I come back to my neighbourhood: people struggling to eat, people struggling to get a job, kids put out of school and an education system that is failing.
"Local authorities are failing to give pupils who are permanently excluded from school the full 25 hours a week of education, " the report says.
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