Often the lowest performing students were shuffled off to another low-performing school.

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Give at-risk and low-performing students more money to bring with them to the public school of their choice.

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Charter schools routinely push out low-performing students, dumping them and their low test-scores back into the traditional public school system.

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And then also help for low-performing schools, Lafeyette, Indiana, for example, they were able to extend the school day, and in fact the school year, for two of the most struggling schools.

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The proposed revisions promise that low-performing schools that fail to improve will be asked to show "dramatic change, " but states and school districts will be held accountable for those shortcomings as well.

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