Sentence examples for Neglected schools from inspiring English sources

People were also concerned about neglected schools, neglected infrastructure, health care changes that hurt the poor and the disabled.

Their participation eventually forced the administration of Mayor Ed Koch to direct greater resources to neglected schools.

Until spring 2006, it was just one of many neglected schools in Neukölln, before its teachers wrote an open letter to the capital's newspapers demanding the school's closure.

Critics say the approach risks blaming the victim — if only students had more resilience, they could rise above generational poverty and neglected schools — and excuses uninspired teaching by telling students it is on them to develop "zest," or enthusiasm.

To best understand how so many poor black and Latino children end up in neglected schools, and why so many white families have the money to buy into neighborhoods with the best schools, you need to look no further than the history of the Farragut Houses and P.S. 307.

Later on, I realized some of the struggles that my black friends and classmates had faced when they left underfunded, neglected schools in their own neighborhoods, with old books and underpaid teachers, to come to the best schools in town, where I wished they had been from the start.

The series, by the newspaper's editorial board, called on the Obama administration and Congress to do something about the hazardous conditions of dozens of neglected school buildings.

The reason for this is that public charter and private schools have limited space and will not be able to accommodate every student who wants to move, leaving the rest of the students, many from low or middle-income families, struggling in an under-funded and neglected school system.

To prepare for its 10th annual serve-a-thon, the volunteer organization New York Cares is looking for people eager to spend their Saturday on Oct. 13 helping to spruce up some of the most neglected public schools across the five boroughs.

A neglected high school baseball player sorts out his loyalties.

A co-founder of the Partnerships to Uplift Communities, a charter school operator, he articulates a helpful vision for improving the district's often-neglected middle schools.