Word: substandard
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...fund local schools. The program is still going, but the overall cause lost a lot of momentum when a big government study came out in 1966 contending that student achievement is not very closely related to school spending levels. Ever since then, the idea that you can't fix substandard local schools by throwing money at them has held sway...
...uses that are not. Low TAAS scores, for example, have not been shown to correlate with the inability to do any particular job, but the lack of a high school diploma does correlate with the inability to find work. Should students poorly educated by substandard teachers be further penalized when they can't pass a test? What about good students who just don't test well? Argues Linda Darling-Hammond of Teachers College at Columbia University: "The use of tests as a sole determinant of high school graduation imposes heavy personal and societal costs without obvious social benefits...
...trio's surviving band members could not mount a successful tour. Of course, the problems might also have been due to the fact that the R.E.M. CD was not as strong musically as some of the band's earlier efforts, and that Pearl Jam's CD was also substandard...
...anyone that Washington is a fiscal disaster. He would like to see this oddly American city-state get a federal tax cut so that families and businesses will want to return. He also proposes hiring a city manager to manage the District's fiscal affairs, and says Washington's substandard services can be improved by increasing spending on police and fire forces...
Others in Atlanta were accused of substandard performance. The police took 10 minutes to alert officers on the scene after they had received the 911 call from a male voice with no discernible accent announcing, "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have 30 minutes." No one wanted to take responsibility for giving guard credentials to Jewell, who has worked for the law and, by some accounts, outside it. The FBI was steamed that Jewell's name had been leaked, perhaps by local officials. That may have stymied the bureau's interview strategy designed to trip up bomb suspects...