He outlined needs for students, including qualified teachers, decent buildings, suitable class sizes, basic supplies, modern textbooks and money for special needs.
Wanting really decent buildings is a good thing, but sometimes it meant the amount spent per school was very, very high.
You would think that the rare opportunity of having a single landowner for such a substantial swathe of the city might result in some architectural coherence, but the result is proving disappointing, the few decent buildings drowned out by a style parade of facets and swoops.
Brown's policy package this week is decent enough, building on what Labour has done best.
It was in a small, decent building, three or four stories high, inexpensive rather than cheap-looking.
"The truth is that there is hardly a decent building left in the Chechen capital on which the Russian tricolors can be raised".
Rockport, north of Boston, is losing its only parish, and the priest, the Rev. Ronald J. Gariboldi, said parishioners were stunned, because the church had steady attendance, no debt and a decent building.
As the science collection got too large and unruly, acquiring the Patent Museum and a library along the way, it was kicked out to fend for itself in the late 19th century, only gaining a decent building in 1928.
Ms. Munro brings them to the glass-bricked entrance of a "small, decent building" in Kitsilano, but while they consummate their mad upsurge of passion in a borrowed flat, she cuts away to describe the setting Meriel would have preferred for adultery: "A narrow six- or seven-story hotel, once a fashionable place of residence, in the West End of Vancouver.
The state has "only decent" building codes, he says, but the codes get enforced for new construction, which can lead to improvements in efficiency.
Hadid, who is rumoured to have personally overseen the design of every half-decent building erected in the past decade, is shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBABA) Lubetkin Prize, awarded in September to the best new building outside of Europe.
