Sentence examples for draconian school from inspiring English sources

Ms. Rhee, one of the most polarizing figures in public education, resigned as chancellor after Mayor Adrian M. Fenty lost Washington's 2010 Democratic primary, a defeat that political analysts said was, in part, fallout from the draconian school policies that Mr. Fenty and Ms. Rhee carried out from 2007 through 2010.

Murakami juxtaposes the starkness of industrial laboratories and a draconian elementary school with the whimsy of sweeping golden fields and the psychedelic F.R.I.E.N.D.s.

And this at the same time legislators are making draconian cuts in school funding!

While it's hard to argue with that, draconian discipline in schools has raised a few eyebrows of late.

When, by 2012, it was clear that 80% of America's schools would not meet NCLB's goal of proficiency for every student by 2014, with resulting embarrassment for politicians and draconian penalties for schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan began issuing waivers (to over 40 states) lifting NCLB's requirements.

But he hasn't gotten Republican legislators to go along with extending some temporary taxes enacted in 2009 needed to avert even more draconian cuts in schools, higher education, and public safety, among other things.

Not only are the proposed cuts to school aid draconian, but in addition the Legislature in 2006 put strict limits on how much districts can raise local property taxes.

But the penalty, administered over the seemingly endless summer, seemed draconian to a high school senior with a new girlfriend and places to go: no driving for three months except straight to work or school.

He just realized that he wanted nothing to do with our Jesuit school's draconian rules about, well, just about everything, but strictures of dorm life certainly didn't jive with his lifestyle of rampant indoor smoking and alcohol-fueled destruction of communal property.

The provisions to accelerate the closure and replacement of failing schools are draconian.

Others enforce draconian regimes of after-school study and all-too constructive leisure.