My friends are tied up in high-expense, low-performing mutual funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Be A Money Guru] Reference

The Miami-Dade School District identified 45 low-performing schools in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Failing Schools Budget Accountability Plan] Reference

That's New Economy lingo for rescuing children in low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vcs Take On Education Reform] Reference

Stemming the tide of dropouts will require turning around our low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009] Reference

OBAMA: Stemming the tide of dropouts will require turning around our low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009] Reference

In low-performing schools, principals will be fired, and all or half of the staff will be fired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Ravitch: Obama's Race to the Top Will Not Improve Education] Reference

"Our principals are retaining top teachers and they are dismissing low-performing teachers," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [School Tenure Crackdown] Reference

And Gray has duly paid: His education plan promises to "remove low-performing teachers from the system.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Teacher firings will test Gray] Reference

The district has been at the forefront of a national effort to rid classrooms of low-performing teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teachers Lose Jobs Over Test Scores] Reference

I urge faster but fair ways to identify, improve -- and when necessary -- remove low-performing teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By Vice President At Graceland College] Reference

And health plans could use it to determine pay or to drop low-performing doctors from their provider networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007] Reference

Professionalism and respect are not luxuries undeserved by the teachers and students in low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The truth behind the get-tough success stories in school reform] Reference

And despite Renaissance, three out of four Chicago Public Schools students remain enrolled in low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorraine Forte: Time to Write a New Chapter for Chicago Public Schools] Reference

New York City may be a fairly low-performing city but the state as a whole does very well and is very active in policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2008] Reference

At the same time, the percentage of the city's schools considered low-performing by national standards fell from 50 to 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colombia’s City On A Hill] Reference

Colorado passed laws that would pay teachers based on student performance and can strip tenure from low-performing instructors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado One Of 18 States To Move On In Federal Race To The Top Education Competition] Reference

Today, 70 percent are doing well in reading, and 88 percent in writing, because the state has focused on low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Teen Conference And Potus Education Tour] Reference

In places like New Haven, education and city leaders have come together to find a smarter way to turn around low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

To make things worse, the paper says many younger teachers are opting out because of the stress of working in low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2007] Reference

REES: I don't think -- there's nothing more unAmerican than forcing a low income parent to send their children to a low-performing school.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2003] Reference

Parents should have more choice in their children's public schools -- especially those whose children are stuck in low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By Vice President At Graceland College] Reference

President Clinton believes that public school choice can help improve low-performing schools by increasing competition and accountability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Address Paper On Turning Around Failing Schools] Reference

The suit was filed on behalf of students in three low-performing public schools, where between 50% and 75% of teachers were laid off last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Tenure Trumps Talent] Reference

By giving families with children stuck in low-performing schools the opportunity to choose some place better, we can raise student achievement.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2007] Reference

One of the requirements, for example, was that if you had a low-performing school, you had to close it down and then re-open later in some new form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colo. Among States That Fell Short In Race To The Top] Reference

Last year, the district determined that all the schools had made progress and removed all 45 schools from the state's list of low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Failing Schools Budget Accountability Plan] Reference

Columbus, Ohio, the funds are being used to help turn around low-performing schools by reducing class size from 25 to 15 in grades one through three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Department Of Education Report] Reference

The contest emphasizes linking student achievement to teacher evaluations, turning around low-performing schools and other measures favored by Duncan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Md., D.C. are Race to the Top finalists] Reference

The union withdrew support in the second round after lawmakers passed a teacher evaluation law that make it easier to get rid of low-performing teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten States Win Race for Aid to Schools] Reference

Think: Help with crime in the streets; think: help for children in low-performing schools; think: jobs for the heads of households, heads of the households everyday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Sive: How a Woman Wins the Race to Replace Mayor Daley] Reference

But within the last year, for the first time, the large pension funds in California and New York are openly challenging highly paid executives at low-performing companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Ceos Make Too Much?] Reference

In Buffalo, N.Y., the district sent a group of more than 600 low-performing first graders to mandatory summer school; even so, 42 percent of them have to repeat the grade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon] Reference

In an important step forward for educational accountability, the President's plan to help turn around low-performing schools has been included in the final budget agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Failing Schools Budget Accountability Plan] Reference

The nation's largest teachers 'unions have been skeptical of Mr. Duncan's policies, especially merit pay for teachers and the mass firing of staff at low-performing schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [States Test Out New Math] Reference

Strengthening public education requires that local and state officials refuse to tolerate persistently low-performing schools and instead take positive steps to turn them around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Meets With Mayors On Strengthening Public Schools] Reference