1.   And everyone has been put on notice that the system intends to begin holding back failing students in the fourth and seventh grades in the next school year.

2.   Both Gore and Bush already support accountability through standardized testing and after-school tutorials for failing students.

3.   Bush wants to end the practice of advancing failing students with their peers.

4.   But improving the schools will not be as easy as failing students.

5.   But the failing students weighed on him.

6.   Discussions between principals and teachers over failing students, he said, come too late in the semester.

7.   His priorities include ending social promotions, the practice of passing failing students.

8.   Her November ballot initiative would reduce the size of new schools, pay for smaller classes and eliminate the practice of advancing failing students.

9.   How to make sure that home-schooled students comply with the no-pass, no-play rule that bars failing students from participating in extracurricular activities.

10.   If a school has too many failing students, it can be taken over by the state and, in theory, the principal and teachers could be fired.