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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Council education bosses in charge of failing school services should lose their jobs, the education minister says.
"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.
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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.
The John Madejski Academy (named after the biggest local benefactor, a publishing millionaire who owns Reading Football Club) has replaced one failing school.
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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When asked to donate some of her time and money to the Baltimore public schools, as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has done, Ms. Winfrey said that she considered contributing money to the failing school system, but decided against it.
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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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.
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 Department for Education (DfE) said it "cannot just stand by if a school is failing children".
But he's not exactly sure how to teach history while preparing those kids for the tests that determine whether the school is failing or not.
Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City, for example, has been making Herculean efforts to turn around its failing million-student school system.
Inspectors wrote that the school was failing to give pupils "an acceptable standard of education" and that those leading it were not "demonstrating the capacity to secure the necessary improvement".
Regardless of the structural, administrative and disciplinary failures at Penn State, the central moral failing was that the school cared more about its reputation, its football team, and even Sandusky than about his victims.
Ross Hendry, chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance - a coalition of organisations tackling bullying, said it could lead to children missing school, failing exams, dropping out of sport, avoiding extra-curricular activities and limiting their life choices.
The first task of any school, and failing that any parent, is to discover the latent talent of every child.
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But some older people still appear to be haunted about by obstacles from their past, such as failing the 11-plus school entrance exams.
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.
The 49-year-old mother, a laundry worker, had denied failing to send her daughter to school without reasonable excuse.
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If the students continue to truant, their parents can be arrested for failing to ensure their children attend school.
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