Sentences with phrase «escape substandard schools»

In most places, the whiter the neighborhood, the better the school system; and the better the school system, the higher the prices of homes, making it impossible for those who aren't wealthy to escape substandard schools.

Of course, it is not clear that this should matter, since poor white children should be just as entitled to escape substandard schools as anyone else.

Not exact matches

Five decades of investment and effort by the federal government to improve public education has not worked, he said, and students need an escape hatch from substandard schools.