The postwar white exodus to suburbia drained students from public schools and transformed them into minority-dominated institutions most of whose instructors were white and Jewish.
Basically, in 2007 the Lib Dem council floated the idea of draining students out of the traditional go-to suburbs like leafy, affluent Jesmond and terraced, multicultural Heaton and put them in purpose-built blocks around the city.
They call it "school reform" but it is really about privatization - charter schools, high-stakes testing, bashing teachers and their unions - and draining students and funding from our public schools.
Los Angeles school officials on Tuesday approved a new teachers' contract despite concerns it places the struggling system at increased financial risk, while separately backing a resolution meant to slow down the booming charter school movement that has drained students from L.A. Unified.
In practice, this could lead to a brain drain of students and teachers from the South and the East to countries with some prospects of jobs.
Maryland State Education Association spokesman Sean Johnson said a later start date would "worsen summer brain drain among students from poor socioeconomic backgrounds" and adds to the financial burden for families.
The survey findings parallel those in studies by the American College Health Association, which show that as a drain on students' mental health, finances rank second only to academics, and ahead of intimate relationships, lack of sleep and family problems.
But Snow and many at the University of Texas (UT), the state's top-ranked major public university, are worried there will be a "brain drain" of students and staff who will leave or, like Dolliver, never enroll.
Into what body of water does nearly every water source in the United States drain? 3. Students should brainstorm a list of commonly used plastics products, including shopping bags, soda bottles, juice containers, computers, car bumpers, pen cases, etc. Write this list on the board.
