In the late 1990s, Shuyang and other counties within Suqian municipality began selling off, merging and closing down schools.
In recent years, suffocating dust storms sweeping across Zabol have repeatedly disrupted life, closing down schools and government offices.
"In Indiana, the budget is tight, the governor has cut back, we see schools laying off teachers, we see them closing down schools," Mr. Souder said.
At a time when many dioceses are closing down schools for K-12 students, Benedict emphasized the importance of keeping them open, especially to serve immigrants and the underprivileged.
The case for Labour's multimillion-pound academy programme has yet to be proved and in some cases the disruption caused by closing down schools and rebranding them can harm children's education, teachers' leaders claimed today.
He is just trying to cast doubt on the scale of the achievement, for instance by criticising the state's drop-out rate.It will be hard for the Democrats to depict Mr Bush as just another right-winger who wants to save money by closing down schools.
That's insanity at a time when we're closing down schools and laying off teachers.
Standardized tests have a valid role in education, but closing down schools or giving principals cash bonuses based on test results is new.
Child 3: But they say CPS and City Hall have been closing down schools in their neighborhood for years, and things aren't improving.
And this is not easy stuff, when you're talking about closing down schools, and restructuring schools, and removing ineffective staff members -- that's not easy or fun stuff.
Debt carried by hundreds of thousands of primarily low-income students has been one of the biggest unresolved issues surrounding the near-collapse of Corinthian, which has been in the process of selling off and closing down schools after a crackdown by the U.S. Department of Education last summer.
