"We look to choose schools that are failing academically, have big dropout rates and are depressing visually," she said.

"I was failing academically, and my parents were having trouble affording the tuition," Jones said.

"Those I could see failing academically were also failing to feel good about themselves."

Edward tells he had a strict father who couldn't forgive his son for failing academically.

An at-risk student is a student who, by virtue of their circumstances, is statistically more likely than others to fail academically.

Since Commerce was failing academically, Yonkers Public Schools decided to close it down in June 2008.

Therefore, it is required to meet the needs of students who are at-risk of failing academically.

Officials yesterday could recall only two occasions in 20 years when school boards were suspended because their schools were failing academically.

But the notion that young children fail academically because they are lazy passed out of fashion with platform shoes.

Children with this problem often fail academically even though they may be bright.