"They're offering a narrow curriculum so schools with a broader curriculum are losing pupils, " he said.
We can also provide new resources, so schools can develop and implement comprehensive emergency management plans.
So schools with high drop out rates and high borrowing rates come out looking far worse than what they actually may be.
Many of those recruits struggle academically, Yost notes, so schools float them through with enough tutoring and class schedule flexibility to pull grades that at least meet the minimum requirements for maintaining sports eligibility.
The Church of England also points out that it has a further 2, 500 or so schools which are "voluntary controlled" and take all of their admissions from the nearby area, reflecting the make-up of the local community.
"And frequently results are changed on appeal - and that process takes a number of weeks - so schools are unwilling to be judged by those results in August ahead of the government's league tables in November, " the spokesman said.
So schools were a real backbone.
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The best mechanism for this would be to attach funding to pupils, not schools, so giving successful schools the money and the incentive to expand.
We know we've had chronic under-investment in British public services, now the transport system doesn't need an injection for a year of money, it needs five, six, seven, eight years of sustained extra investment, so does the health service, so do our schools, so do the police on our street.
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The 60% or so of schools destroyed or closed during the war have almost all been rebuilt or re-opened.
And then you meet these kids and they've been to so many schools in a few years, but they're adjusting.
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Still, this will not be enough to satisfy demand, so business schools must use all of the tools at their disposal.
Applying to so many schools can be a mixed bag for students.
Just under 2, 000 of England's 3, 500 or so secondary schools have gained specialist status, with the rest due to follow by 2008.
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So religious schools' ability to choose their pupils has been whittled away.
Of the parents who volunteer, 43.1 percent do so at schools or other youth service organizations, making schools a hub for volunteering and civic activity.
Questions are still being asked about why so many schools collapsed.
Various blended-learning models, for example, should create more flexibility and free up more funds so that schools can offer an array of experiences, including physical exercise.
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Recommendations included the promotion of cooperation with higher education institutions for research, data collection and training for policymakers, and the involvement of family members in educational activities so that schools can be a bridge between generations.
And despite its depressing enumeration of the failure of so many schools, particularly in poorer urban areas, its miserable ending, and the bleakness of its title, the movie also has a message of hope: there are good schools and teachers in America, whose methods could make its education system as good as any in the world if only they were allowed to.
"The schools will have some choice for parents so that the schools will have a reason to get better, " Cheney maintains.
And so what you end up with in New York City, is a very small number of very good schools that serve largely middle, and upper middle class kids - and then a large number of not-so-good schools that serve mostly poor kids.
West Kent's grammar schools are so competitive and so good that several fee-paying primary schools have sprung up to prepare pupils for the tests a phenomenon vanishingly rare elsewhere.
Now, for example, we all agree that education is the key to a 21st century economy. (Applause.) We all agree that the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education. (Applause.) So why don't we work together to transform our schools, so that every child in America can compete with their counterparts around the world, from Beijing to Bangalore.
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With tuition so high some schools have explored new ways for the less wealthy to pay.
Pupils will be put into ballots within certain postcodes, so proximity to schools still counts for something.
So far 136 schools have converted to academy status - with a further 254 applications in the pipeline.
Linux is effectively free, so many high schools and universities are making it their operating system of choice.
The two groups say they've built 10 schools so far, all in 2012.
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