1.   Armed with that information, Britton envisioned teachers retooling their approach, reaching out to failing students and preventing them from dropping out.

2.   Bivins, however, said his bill would create a safeguard to prevent blanket promotions of failing students by making the appeals process part of the school accountability system.

3.   Additionally, the teacher was to fail the students only for the written part of the project and was to give them credit for other parts.

4.   Dumbed-down courses, dishonest testing and social promotions to preserve the self-esteem of failing students has become a national disgrace.

5.   He blocked failing students from being promoted.

6.   Teachers unions are challenging a state program that provides failing students with scholarships to attend private or parochial schools.

7.   That means holding back failing students, removing disruptive students and creating quality courses for those who are not college bound.

8.   The policy is intended to build self-esteem for failing students by introducing street language as a teaching tool.

9.   The participants would also agree to press for programs that would help failing students before they are held back or denied diplomas.

10.   The school, administrators worried, was failing its students.