Successful schools will be prodded to take over and run failing ones.
One is that too many multi-academy trusts are poorly run, failing to intervene when their schools are underperforming, replicating the failures of local authorities.
The judge's decision suggested that under current law, the state had few if any options for seeking restitution for residents from operators who run failing adult homes.
Their place at the head of failing or semi-functioning ministries would temporarily be taken by international civil-servants.Who better to run "failing or semi-functioning" institutions, you might say, than international civil servants, who do it all the time?
In the streak's first nine losses, they scored a total of 11 runs, failing to hit a home run.
But in the past two seasons McGwire hit a total of 61 home runs, failing to reach his total for each of the previous two seasons, and Griffey connected for a total of 62, only 22 this year.
Federer, normally so commanding when in front, buckled again, his running forehand failing to clear the chord.
Few would argue that running a failing war is for the faint hearted, so there is some irony in the selection of David Petraeus to replace Stanley McChrystal.
The great man himself, forever pursued by debt, always the victim of his own generosity, was reduced to running a failing coffee shop and then to scratching a living as a subeditor on an obscure weekly.
In a panel discussion on Wednesday in New York sponsored by Greenpeace, the environmental group, James E. Hansen, a prominent NASA climate scientist, said the Arctic melting should serve as a warning to the public of the risks that society is running by failing to limit emissions.
