Sentences with phrase «crumbling school facilities»

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Under their watch, our economy crumbled and public infrastructure, such as roads, schools, hospitals and sporting facilities were in their worst and horrible state of disrepair.»

In the absence of an unflinching, daily reaffirmation of standards of educational excellence, the structural disadvantages common to many public schools - the poorly paid and underqualified teachers, the crumbling facilities - inevitably begin to encroach on, and then to corrupt, the learning environment.

Mayor Stoney introdcued the increase in order to fund the renovation and replacement of crumbling Richmond school facilities.

An unequal system where some schools have more money, smaller class sizes, and the latest in technology while most are underfunded, have overcrowded classes, and are left with crumbling, outdated facilities.

A School Buildings Task Force in Rhode Island says the state should allocate $ 500 million to renovate and repair crumbling education facilities.

President Clinton introduces a four - year, $ 5 billion school - construction initiative to help school districts construct new facilities and rebuild crumbling schools.

On that day, President Clinton unveiled plans for a four - year, $ 5 billion school - construction initiative to help school districts construct new facilities and rebuild crumbling schools.

On a recent tour of DPS schools, Mayor Mike Duggan found crumbling facilities, dead rodents, and children wearing coats in freezing classrooms.

She discussed «repairing crumbling schools» and making general investments in school facilities and technology.

Looking around most school facilities — even those that aren't old and crumbling — it's obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use.

Today, hundreds of schools are plagued with rodent and insect infestations, crumbling facilities, exposed asbestos - laden floor and ceiling tiles, and thousands of water sources that have never been tested for lead or other health risks,» Sharkey said.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.