Sentences with phrase «substandard schools»

-- who now suffer daily in substandard schools where they are condemned to a life of misery!

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.

In many ways, their sons and daughters were growing up the way Canada had, four decades before, just a few miles away in the South Bronx: cut off from the American mainstream, their futures constrained by substandard schools, unstable families, and a segregated city.

What do people expect when ontrack four - year - olds are tossed into substandard schools for the rest of their academic career, and with a battery of other disadvantages, including the ever - present threat of violence?

But for many years, it has meant just that, as minority urban students have made do with out - of - date textbooks, leaking school roofs, and substandard school libraries.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas's school system «has really struggled» under Governor Rick Perry, a Republican candidate for president, and the state's substandard schools do a disservice to children.

It is often thought that if children simply work hard and are supported by their parents, they can overcome substandard schooling.

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.

Maybe you'd like to close the huge funding gaps that trap low - income students in substandard schools, or create free, high - quality, universal prekindergarten.

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.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

As the White House pledges a big push to rebuild the national infrastructure, education advocates push for money to rebuild and refurbish aging, substandard schools.

The oft - praised benefits of state and local control — experimentation, innovation, and competition for excellence — have failed to eliminate the substandard schools that many children attend.

And these constitutional provisions — which most courts interpret as creating a right to instruction that equips students to compete in the global economy — could provide a means for families in substandard schools to demand reform.

And what do you think it meant when black students were given secondhand books and had to walk miles to substandard schools?

It drives those who can leave to private or charter schools leaving the poor in substandard schools.

We need, among other things, more equitable appropriation of public funds, implementation of academic programs with a high success record, lowering pupil / teacher ratio for reading and math, and higher pay incentives for seasoned teachers willing to teach in substandard schools.

Unfortunately, sometimes, throughout history, some people have done some pretty awful things to children: Some have thrown them into rivers, or into garbage cans, while others have knowingly built unsafe and substandard schools.