Sentence examples for decrepit schools from inspiring English sources
*That "decaying and decrepit" schools hurt student performance.
Put people to work repairing and rebuilding roads and bridges, decrepit schools and ancient sewer systems.
Many of the polling places in Kinshasa were located in decrepit schools with moldering, lichen-spotted walls and no electricity.
The nonprofit Education Law Center brought the case in 1981 on behalf of impoverished urban children trapped in decrepit schools.
The president has been reluctant to target black suffering – be it in overcrowded prisons, decrepit schools or declining workplaces.
He also called for spending an additional $126 million to replace the six most decrepit schools in the system.
What's needed, Democrats argue, is more money to spend on more teachers, to fix decrepit school buildings and to help poor children.
When Gov. Claude Kirk made a surprise visit in 1968 to inspect the decrepit school, he said, "If one of your kids were kept in such circumstances, you'd be up there with rifles".
With a "conceptual agreement" announced yesterday at City Hall, New York City's 1.1 million public school students have reason to hope that their uneven and often decrepit school system is entering a new era.
In Quarry, images of wreck and decay are everywhere and seemingly unambiguous: the scrapyard itself, Ted's squalid cottage, pile-ups on the nearby M5, plants stunted by carbon monoxide, a decrepit school building infested by cockroaches.
Eight years ago, the man who would go on to be the first black president came to this decrepit school in rural black South Carolina with a promise to change things.
