Sentence examples for labeled in need of from inspiring English sources

Tutoring is offered to children below the poverty line in schools receiving Title I funds that have been labeled "in need of improvement" for at least two years.

Maryland officials say their proposals would avoid large numbers of schools being labeled "in need of improvement" when only small numbers of students are doing poorly.

Schools that miss goals for several years running for any group are labeled "in need of improvement," and their students become eligible for transfer to higher-scoring campuses and free, after-school tutoring.

Under the law, high-poverty schools labeled "in need of improvement" for more than two years must spend up to 20percentt of their federal aid to send students to more successful schools and to tutor students who do not transfer.

The law has, to date, labeled some 30,000 schools as "in need of improvement," a euphemism for failing, but states and districts have done little to change them.

Among states that apply to participate in the program, priority will be given to those in which at least 20percentt of public schools receiving federal aid to poor children have been labeled as in need of improvement, Ms. Spellings said.

Thus, groups labelled as "dirty", "contagious"; "high-risk" and "in need of extra surveillance", have, for centuries and up to the present day, corresponded with the poor, the working class and immigrants [ 37].

Michigan's superintendent of schools, Thomas D. Watkins Jr., said today that he was encouraged by parts of the letter, in which the Education Department agreed not to label "schools in need of improvement" as failing schools.

But even if the state finds the procedures acceptable, state and Indian education officials said the high numbers may point to more troubling factors: general weaknesses in education among American Indians, educators' lack of understanding of Indian culture, a lack of American Indian teachers or a tendency to label students in need of special education based on race alone.

UNTIL recently, Union City High bore the scarlet-letter label, "school in need of improvement".

In the old days he would have been labelled aggressive and in need of medication".