Although the city's struggling schools generally face closure because of poor academic performance, the Believe schools are being targeted for fiscal and governance problems.
In 2009, one year after Sampson's departure, there came a final insult: Poor academic performance cost the Hoosiers two basketball scholarships for a season.
It does not always occur, however research has indicated that father absence can lead to poor academic performance, and in some instances lead to delinquent behaviors.
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Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.
Up to 15, 000 people were believed to have taken part in the riots - with the majority of those aged under 24 and with poor academic records, the report said.
Others might chastise my numbers by arguing that the student-athletes that stand to gain the most financially from being afforded the opportunity to attend college due to the scholarship are the ones least likely to graduate because of poor pre-college academic training and preparation.
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Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the English Baccalaureate "reinforces the idea that anything other than a traditional academic route is the poor relation".
Academic studies show that the poor suffer worse health outcomes as a result, including premature death.
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For those from poor families, whose parents had few academic achievements, who got into private school via the assisted-places scheme, the benefits were especially marked.
He was also the main benefactor of the Freedom Writers program, which was started in Long Beach in 1997 as an initiative to improve the academic outlook of students in poor communities.
Other Antwerp schools banned scarves on the ground of equality but in reality, says Ms Azabar, they wanted to repel pupils from poor backgrounds who might pull them down academic league tables.
In fact, much academic research has shown that the poor are more often victims than perpetrators of resource depletion: it tends to be rich locals or outsiders who are responsible for the worst exploitation.
Since every high school, no matter how low its standards, has a top decile, the law gave UT a lot of poor and minority kids who never would have made it on the basis of academic ability.
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