Sentences with phrase «a wealthy neighborhood»

The context here is that we're currently in the «Moving to Opportunity» era, which is fueled by the theory that low - income families improve their lots when they're able to live in wealthier neighborhoods with better economic prospects.

The apartment could be in an wealthy neighborhood in Paris or Manhattan: a gleaming kitchen with coffeemaker, a balcony with a child's bike perched outside, and his and her laptops.

«We are planting churches in the poorest and wealthiest neighborhoods at the same time, and learning about what it means to collaborate and humble ourselves.»

The average rent of an apartment in Manhattan is now almost $ 3,500 a month, and though the figure is raised by the astonishing rents in many of the wealthier neighborhoods (we were reading about one apartment overlooking Gramercy Park that rented for $ 30,000 a month), rents are high even in the poor neighborhoods.

Immigrants don't move to wealthy neighborhoods.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

In the meantime, tenants in large rental buildings, who often bring in less than half the income of the aforementioned co-op and condo owners in wealthy neighborhoods, are more likely to be black or Hispanic — and get slammed with disproportionately higher tax bills.

Currently, by funding schools through property tax, people in wealthy neighborhoods often get better schools, she said.

Wealthy neighborhood residents — mostly from one neighboring building — have successfully lobbied their local elected officials to rezone a 10 - block stretch of the area limiting the scope of Gamma's tower.

In wealthier neighborhoods, the exterior of vacant buildings is usually maintained, while in neighborhoods such as Harlem or the Lower East Side, vacant buildings tend to look dilapidated.

This finding suggests that features such as parks and communal landscaping that are characteristic of wealthier neighborhoods as well as lush landscaping choices of neighbors can compensate for local choices of homeowners.

While at SUNY Buffalo, I saw how starkly neighborhoods could change over a short distance, from the college section to a dangerous area, say, or a wealthy neighborhood.

Dr. Brookfield and her colleagues studied Florida women with invasive cervical cancer and found that white or Hispanic women lived longer than African - Americans (who tended to be diagnosed later than other women), as did those with health insurance or who lived in wealthier neighborhoods.

Dress to the nines and head to high - end nightclubs, ultra-lounges, swank restaurants and bars, or even wealthy neighborhood coffee shops nearest to your area.

Murder in Pacot A wealthy neighborhood in Port - au - Prince is nearly destroyed by the Haitian earthquake of 2010 in this smart, unconventional drama (2015) by Raoul Peck (Lumumba).

A portrait of social entrapment in the 20th century, the movie chronicles the development of wealthy neighborhoods in Baltimore and the ghettoization of its black population to the point where the community has remained in perennial disrepair.

Lady Bird misleads Jenna into believing she lives in a wealthy neighborhood.

The movie concerns a seemingly normal nuclear family - Steve (David Duchovny), Kate (Demi Moore), Mick (Ben Hollingsworth), and Jenn (Amber Heard)- who, as it turns out, are actually a foursome of stealth marketers, with their task to infiltrate a wealthy neighborhood and surreptitiously convince its various residents to buy a series of high - end (and not - so - high - end) products.

She gets a job working as a maid in a wealthy neighborhood, but when Christina is offered the opportunity to come home with a much bigger paycheck, she finds herself employed by a local drug cartel.

The result is that schools in wealthy neighborhoods, which tend to attract more experienced and therefore more expensive teachers, spend more on salaries than they actually pay for.

Medium neighborhoods have between 5 and 10 % of families below the poverty line and wealthier neighborhoods have less than 5 % below the poverty line.

Supporting this hypothesis, the low - achieving winners, those that scored in the bottom 50 percent, tend to be located in wealthy neighborhoods.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

But while everyone agrees that public schools are struggling to keep up with new growth, skeptics argue that Nevada has a very small private school sector that is heavily tilted toward wealthy neighborhoods.

Or a school so new that the state hasn't ranked it, one that doesn't prioritize smart kids or students from wealthy neighborhoods.

States should also promote inclusionary zoning policies, which provide affordable, subsidized housing units in scattered locations across wealthy neighborhood properties.

«Parents from low - income communities should be treated with as much respect as parents in wealthier neighborhoods.

While time for dance and music is offered, current and former parents say the schools skimp on social studies, science, the visual arts and the kind of creative, sensory activities that fill the days at high - performing schools in wealthier neighborhoods.

Sarah Irvine Belson, one of the authors of the report, said schools offering the most amount of physical education time are distributed relatively evenly throughout the District and are not clustered in wealthier neighborhoods.

Wealthier neighborhoods hoard wealth and maintain a racially separate school system through a financial structure based on property taxes.

It seems to me that wealthy neighborhoods are using district lines to leverage themselves against demographic shifts.

Those who can afford it pay for private school or move to wealthier neighborhoods which are zoned for better schools.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

They are often zoned in wealthy neighborhoods.

U.S. News & World Report looks at the trend of white, wealthy neighborhoods seceding from their school districts to form new districts.

In upper - middle - class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents.

This is now common practice even in the wealthiest neighborhoods in Central Texas.

The board is weighing a proposal that would send all but 186 of those students to the two nearby elementaries, shifting them out of schools that serve some of Loudoun's wealthiest neighborhoods.

Bryson is an outlier elementary school in South Gate because it's in a wealthier neighborhood with all the benefits that brings.

How do we allow a system to exist where poor children in the fourth grade are already performing three grade levels behind children in wealthier neighborhoods?

Currently, the highest performing, most qualified teachers in New York City are disproportionately teaching in the city's wealthiest neighborhoods and schools, while schools serving low - income and students of color are disproportionately assigned the least qualified, lowest performing teachers.

But data from Nevada, consistently ranked at the bottom in the nation for student achievement, quickly showed that a vast majority of applicants were not from low - income areas, but the wealthiest neighborhoods in Reno and Las Vegas.

But unlike the children in wealthy neighborhoods, they did not go home to a safe house with warmth and running water.

There's a stark difference between the city's overall opt out numbers and the state's, and it's certainly true that parents at some schools in wealthier neighborhoods, whose schools can count on high test scores (as they are largely correlated with socioeconomic status), may have more time, a bigger platform to speak up, and, above all, more access to accurate information about the tests, their impacts and the right to refuse them.

But why are voucher applicants more likely from wealthy neighborhoods?

Children from the poorest and lowest performing schools deserve the same options and education that children in wealthier neighborhoods have access to.

We are by no means wealthy, nor live within wealthy neighborhoods as most are middle class neighbors.

He plans to drive his through the wilds of Coldwater Canyon, a wealthy neighborhood on rugged hillsides.

In the Minnesota winter, a baby is kidnapped from a wealthy neighborhood.

I can't guess what is happening in the wealthier neighborhoods, but I suspect that credit scores might not be seeing the same declines as high card limit consumers cut back their spending to counteract the impact of some limits being lowered.