Sentences with phrase «woeful schools»

If the Left can't understand and sympathize with the plight of at least some low - income and minority, largely urban, populations who are stuck in woeful schools and want to «get out,» and if the Left can't characterize that desire for educational and social mobility as anything other than a drive for «privatization,» well... so much for the Rainbow Coalition.)

Sometimes called the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia can hardly apply that moniker to its woeful school system and treacherous politics.

Not exact matches

Michigan's 38 - 31 Rose Bowl win over Washington salvaged a modicum of pride for the once powerful Big Ten, which, with Ohio State's 21 - 14 loss to Georgia in the Citrus and Illinois's 27 - 17 loss to Hawaii in the Holiday, is now 48 -57-1 in bowl games and a woeful 29 -44-1 since 1975, when the conference began allowing member schools to play in bowls other than the Rose.

the woeful inadequacy of school food funding — ie., the fact that far more than a six cent increase is needed to «revolutionize» school food;

It's not news that Washington's schools are among the most woeful in the country, but even a cynic has to gasp.

Instead, the day's focus was on vouchers, charter schools, and the woeful state of public education in Cleveland.

But there's a woeful shortage of such principals and schools.

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.

Woeful finances and academics compelled the state in 2001 to install a five - member School Reform Commission.

But for the families at Walsh Elementary, especially those who sit on the school governance council that exercised the Parent Trigger under Nutmeg State law (with help from teachers at the school), the move isn't just about woeful performance.

I previously wrote about the woeful stagnation among U.S. high school seniors on a national reading and math test whose 2013 results were released May 7, 2014.

He said he appreciated that many grammar schools did a «fine job», but added that their record of admitting children from non-middle class backgrounds was «pretty woeful».

Of course she won't, she'll just cough politely and say that the coasting grade was never meant for Free / Academy Schools, just those woeful LA schools that are doing so much harm to our children and young peopleSchools, just those woeful LA schools that are doing so much harm to our children and young peopleschools that are doing so much harm to our children and young people.......

So it is hard for Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli to offer any spirited defense of Virginia's woeful proficiency targets (or even defend the state's unwillingness to address teacher quality issues and expand school choice).

For most of the past three decades, districts such as Carmel - Clay, Hamilton Southeastern, and Westfield - Washington have only had to provide teaching and curricula to the children of executives and middle managers of such Fortune 500 outfits such as drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co., and healthcare giant WellPoint, who fled from the Circle City for traditional district schools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disschools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disSchools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister districts.

«I appreciate that many grammar schools do a fine job in equipping their students with an excellent education,» Wilshaw said, «but we all know that their record of admitting children from non-middle-class backgrounds is pretty woeful.

Williams - Bolar would end up spending 10 days in jail for placing her two daughters in the relatively high - performing (and, more important to her, safe) Copley - Fairlawn school district (where few of the black students drop out) instead of keeping them in the woeful, more - dangerous Akron district (whose Balfanz rate for young black men and women, respectively, is 62 percent and 76 percent) in which her family resided.

In the context in which it appeared, however (that is, in a world in which most investors and indeed even most investing experts have shown a woeful lack of appreciation of the dangers of the Old School safe withdrawal rate studies) I view this article as one that does more to add to the problem than to diminish it.

I was woeful at math and science in school, it confused me and I switched off.