Sentence examples for in a poor school from inspiring English sources

Putting on a musical in a poor school district is another matter.

But as a professor of education, I cringe at the implicit message that taking a teaching job in a poor school is equivalent to becoming a gofer who gets some higher-up's coffee every morning.

On one visit, to a poor school district in Newark, he recalled sitting with a 9-year-old boy named John who had never used a computer before.

"It also shows there is an 'achievement against the odds' effect – students getting to university in spite of attending a poorer school are more likely to do well once they get there".

Fears of ending up in a poor-performing school have unfairly tainted the whole system, experts say.

She proposes a race-blind, class-based type of affirmative action whereby students who have thrived in poor schools or rough neighbourhoods are given special consideration.

The state attorney general, however, chose not to take action against union members following a similar sickout in January over poor school conditions, which labor experts said could be considered a method of strike.

I was hired a week before school by a desperate principal/nun to teach all subjects -- math, science, socail studies, reading, language arts and religion -- in the self-contained sixth grade class in a Title I (read: poor) school in the Bronx.

In school-aged individuals inattention symptoms often result in poor school performance.

The State Assembly passed a bill yesterday to provide complete state financing for construction projects in poor school districts.

But this changed in 1989 with a Kentucky case, Rose v Council for Better Education, where the court decided that education in poor school districts was inadequate, rather than merely unequal.