In fact, despite the Brown decision, schools are still largely segregated, and most poor black children still receive a substandard education.

We have an environmental crisis, a health-insurance crisis, substandard education - it is time for a change.

The brightest minds were sacrificed to substandard education.

Inadequate nutrition, substandard education and bad living quarters all corrode normal development.

But it is still understandable that many poor families and their supporters would regard the program as a lifeline to save children from substandard public education.

But many are cheaply run, highly profitable businesses that offer students substandard educations.

He also concluded that the system violated federal civil rights laws, because black and Hispanic children are more likely than whites to receive a substandard education.

A few days of civil action, or a lifetime of a substandard education?

"So we're basically talking about one in three city schools offering a substandard education," she said.

The indigenous peoples of Taiwan face economic and social barriers, including a high unemployment rate and substandard education.