failing school

collocation in English

meaningsoffailingandschool

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failing
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/us
/ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/
becoming weaker or ...
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school
noun
uk
/skuːl/us
/skuːl/
a place where children go to ...
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(Definition offailingandschoolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffailing school

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He is an educator to his fingertips, an inspirational leader who has transformed afailingschool.
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Is not it those in the inner city who cannot escape from thefailingschool, the hard-pressed hospital or the crime-ridden estate?
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My noble friend asked what constitutes a "failingschool".
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In order to have a policy that will apply to groups of failing schools, we must have a definition of afailingschool.
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When there is a clear direction, it is possible to transform afailingschool, hospital or other public service.
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There is no escape or hiding place for afailingschool, whether a church school, a grant-maintained school or a local authority school.
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Yesterday'sfailingschoolcan become today's oversubscribed school.
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Where good schools co-exist with bad, we shall bring them in to support the "failingschool" on a path to success.
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The head teacher excluded pupils because he wanted to turn thatfailingschoolinto one in which the community could take pride.
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I know of one school, sufficiently distant in time to allow me to refer to it, that became afailingschool.
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That is one of the factors that could contribute to its designation as afailingschool.
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It is the problems in thefailingschoolwhich should dictate the membership.
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Is there a definition of what we would call a "failingschool"?
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When faced with afailingschool, what can you do?
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Who is to decide what constitutes afailingschool?
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It is in everyone's interest to deal with afailingschool.
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In another four cases, there has been an amalgamation of a failing and a nonfailingschoolto create a new institution.
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It cannot champion afailingschoolat the expense of others.
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So we cannot adequately assess thefailingschoolunless we know something of the social background in which that school operates.
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