Sentence examples for unequal schools from inspiring English sources

The hopes of too many children are frustrated by deep poverty and unequal schools, and when this happens, our whole country feels the loss of their gifts.

Studies such as Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Equal Opportunity in the Americas, edited by Fernando Reimers (2000), identify measures governments have implemented with successful results.

Solving the problem of unequal schools and inadequate outcomes requires many actions, from ensuring financial equity for the Bridgeports and Hartfords to better K-12 programs to having expectations of a well-rounded education for all children.

My father was raised in the Jim Crow south, attending separate and unequal schools, riding in the back of the bus, and never entering through a white neighbour's front door.

"Finally, responding to the lawsuits brought by the parents, the court stepped in and ruled the state of Missouri and the St . Louisschool board were jointly responsible for violating the Constitution by creating and maintaining segregated and grossly unequal schools.

It is a history that includes the pain and sacrifice of so many of our people in the past, from the slave ships to the lynching trees, to the separate and unequal schools and the places where our parents, though paying customers, could not sit down to eat, to Charleston, where massacre-surviving worshippers at Mother Emanuel (again, A.M.E).

About 30 states are struggling with unequal school funding, from California to Arkansas to Massachusetts.

One points to "unequal school education which puts poorer students at a significant disadvantage – and often they are poor, black and from rural areas".

One of the banlieues' biggest problems is education – France is ranked among the developed world's most unequal school systems, with students' performance dependent upon their socioeconomic status.

Entrenched forces, inertia and fear of change may be fueling another blight for Long Island: its highly segregated, fragmented and unequal school systems.

But in practical terms enabling aspiration for all almost certainly means chipping away at the extremely unequal school hierarchy and investing more money in the least well off, even if the rest of us have to pay for that.