Sentences with phrase «academically failing school district»

When Hurricane Katrina washed away New Orleans, the city and state decided to make lemonade by doing away with that city's own longtime corruption - plagued, academically failing school district.

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

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In general, the notion that large numbers of charter school students are failing academically and would be a drag on the school district graduation rate if they were included in the rate appears to be unjustified.