These are schools aimed at the poorest parts of society, where aspirations are often low.
Colonial and then Canadian governments took away most of their land by treaty or trickery and forced their children into residential schools aimed at assimilation.
The district has put out a request for proposals for a new middle school, which some board members of District 1 said they feared would turn out to be another school aimed at gifted children.
A federal law passed in 1819 spawned a network of boarding schools aimed at "civilising" Native Americans by purging their traditions, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs carried out this and related mandates for decades.
After he became president in 1999, Mr Chavez, a former army officer whose parents were both teachers, ordered the setting up of "Bolivarian schools", aimed at providing basic education and three meals a day for poor children.
The founding father of the British games industry, who helped bring Dungeons and Dragons and Lara Croft to the world, is to open two free schools aimed at preparing pupils for the digital world.
His imaginative creation of different milieus was fed by countless visits he made to schools, aimed at fostering in his youthful listeners the same love of writing and reading that drove him.
Suicide prevention programs in schools aimed at teen-agers may actually stir depressed feelings rather than help youths who have tried to kill themselves, according to a new study.
Two weeks ago, President Clinton announced a program called Cops in Schools, aimed at making it easier for school districts to get money to hire police officers in hopes of preventing the types of shootings that have resulted in the deaths of students and teachers in half a dozen schools in the last three years.
To the Editor: Thomas J. Espenshade argues that abolition of affirmative action by the United States Supreme Court might prompt elite colleges and universities to shift their endowments to support outreach efforts to K-12 schools, aimed at narrowing the racial and ethnic achievement gap.
