Word: disrepair
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Consider, as Green must, the realities of the other nine months. Dropout rates approach 90% in some ghetto schools and -- depending on who is counting -- 30% to 55% citywide. A surfeit of aging buildings crumble in disrepair. Desks occasionally spill out of overcrowded classrooms into hallways prowled by student hoodlums who "have been bringing weapons to school for years," says one principal. An overpowerful custodian's union, whose president was killed last year in what police described as a gangland-style rubout, dictates the hours schools will be open. Tenured high school principals cannot be fired without interminable hearings. Under...
Washington Post reporter David Broder originally suggested sponsoring a discussion of presidential press conferences, Kalb said. "The idea in its simplest form is that the press conference is in a state of acute disrepair," Kalb said...
When the Secretary made these remarks at Harvard, they were greeted with a mix of hisses and anger. But as the American wings of Harvard's English and History departments seem to be heading into disrepair, it seems fair to ask whether students can study the United States at Harvard...
When students aren't complaining about the lottery system, a common theme is the disrepair of the rooms...
...University has remembered the Revolutionary War spy by maintaining his grave, which is located outside Paris. And every year since the Count died in 1815, a Harvard official has sent Rumford's gravekeeper a $50 check to ensure that the ignominious American's tomb does not fall into disrepair...