Sentence examples for afflicted schools from inspiring English sources
To fight the residential turmoil in two of the most afflicted schools, Washington and Bryant, the State Department of Human Services began an experiment in 2004 called the Genesee Scholars Program intended to keep a group of second graders intact for two years.
The many complex problems that have long afflicted public schools are being laid almost solely at the feet of the nation's teachers' unions.
One reason for that is the persistently afflicted public school system, which has for decades had a dampening effect on property values.
In New York City, which is also afflicted by school overcrowding, construction is impeded by requirements that apply to the addition of classroom space.
But there is nothing ordinary about the shortage of teachers afflicting American schools these days, particularly in the booming Sun Belt.
Deconstruction started to run into the sands when it got used to interpret texts in conformance with the political views of the interpreter (a type of self-fulfilling prophecy that afflicts many schools of criticism).
The job pays about $150 a month, and its occupant must digest a steady diet of complaints from residents about the most fundamental ailments afflicting South Africa: schools that do not teach, taps that do not deliver water, crime that the police seem helpless to stop, jobs that are impossible to find.
She insists that the real problems afflicting our schools--poverty and segregation--are outside the classroom and that every effort to improve schools has not worked.
But Ron Deutsch, the executive director of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a liberal advocacy group, said the state needed the extra revenue from high incomes, especially with the tight budgets that are afflicting many school districts and local governments.
Tungiasis particularly afflicts primary school-age children and elderly persons in rural Uganda.
When he arrived at Harvard, Updike was a bony-shouldered scholarship boy from a public high school, afflicted with a stutter and a severe case of psoriasis.
