Sentence examples for instead of schools from inspiring English sources

Shrouding the cost of locking people up has given the United States the world's highest incarceration rate while forcing states to spend precious public dollars building prisons instead of schools.

Instead of schools being able to choose between competing GCSEs in these subjects, a competition will be held to identify the best, single suite of qualifications in each subject offered by a single Awarding Organisation.

The sky is blue and cloud-strewn,/my wife is recovering from alcoholism, and/we're going to Washington to protest even one more/cent being allocated for stupid B-1 bombers instead of schools./Would you like to come?

My analogy of reducing people -- instead of schools -- to letter grades isn't far-flung.

While the Drug War devastated communities like mine first and worst, Oakland as a whole suffered from the shift of public resources towards prisons and punishment instead of schools, jobs training and creation, and vital programs that strengthen families and communities.

APEC claims it will provide a low cost solution and make money at the same time by using cost-cutting measures such as placing classrooms in office buildings instead of schools and hiring an under-qualified non-accredited low-paid teaching staff.

"The kids," he said, "they come here instead of school".

That guaranteed that Wednesday would be a day for hopping on sleds instead of school buses.

I ended up attending this unit daily for two months instead of school.

Go Texan Day just meant I got to wear my regular clothes to school, instead of school clothes".

Instead of school buildings rising in their backyards, neighbors say, they prefer the expansive views and the property tax income the club generated for White Plains's coffers.