"Across Nation, Storm Victims Crowd Schools" (front page, Sept. 7) did not reflect the enormous efforts of charter schools to respond to the tragedies of families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
*Citing crowding, school districts across the country have largely avoided offering children in chronically failing schools the option to transfer to a better public school, as the law promises.
In the weeks since, residents have crowded school board meetings to demand an appeal, Jessica has received online threats and the police have escorted her at school, and Cranston, a dense city of 80,000 just south of Providence, has throbbed with raw emotion.
In the video made for World Food Day, Molly shows viewers her home, crowded school, friends, and food she receives every day.
We have big problems with the NHS, crowded schools, housing and low-wage jobs.
It brings traffic jams, long lines at the supermarket, crowded schools and an inadequate tax base to do very much very quickly about an overstressed infrastructure.
In many states, there are already signs of public unease over the role of immigration in crowding schools, burdening hospitals and depressing wages.
These include traffic congestion that is among the worst in the nation, air pollution, soaring housing prices, crowded schools and a growing sense that local government is almost helpless to solve these problems.
Ramshackle Shia villages ringing the main city, Manama, suffer power cuts, leaky sewage and crowded schools.Other places to find a drinkIt is not only the poor who complain.
Enrollment in elementary and middle schools is expected to decline in the next several years, according to the report, but there are many neighborhoods that have crowded schools that are likely to see spikes in population.
