Sentences with phrase «affluent areas»

Schools in affluent areas with small numbers of pupils eligible for funding will also have very limited budgets to work with, which will limit the range of interventions that they can potentially use.

Originally, the district said that some schools in more affluent areas of the city and most high schools would see their budgets shrink under the changes.

On average, though, they have not had access to the same educational opportunities as children from more affluent areas of the country.

Nearly 59 per cent of pupils from the most disadvantaged areas missed their predicted grades, compared to around 48 per cent of students from the most affluent areas.

Given the disproportionate prevalence of bottle feeding in less affluent areas, it's the poorest families in our society who are losing out the most.

Local democracy relies on the voluntary efforts of a handful of individuals, even in relatively affluent areas.

Most of those sites have been between 15,000 sq. ft. and 20,000 sq. ft. and were located in highly affluent areas with high levels of education.

We know that children living in disadvantage do worse than those from affluent areas, not because the schools are poorer, but in fact because of a combination of a number of factors.

We don't live in a particularly affluent area, but our students are on the leading edge of technology in our region.

Think of it, the working life span of a human in economically affluent areas in those times is probably 50 years.

A closer look at cuts to local government reveals that less affluent areas stand to lose out most.

On the way, the teacher purposely drove them through affluent areas, exposing them to a new world of possibility.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

The problem arises when the land bank does not benefit the city as a whole, focusing primarily on more affluent areas.

Teachers in schools in the most deprived areas work on average 3.6 hours less per week than teachers in schools based in the most affluent areas, the report found.

Leaders in the school said the primary was receiving less funding than others because it was in a relatively affluent area.

To combat what they refer to as the summer school achievement gap, the story explains, educators in less affluent areas are trying to create more summer programs that are not remedial.

We live in a rental in a very affluent area, so that the last 2 at home could go to one of the best public school districts in our state.

Under the new proposals, academies will be top - performing schools, many located in affluent areas.

I think I'm lucky to live near affluent areas where people donate all kinds of barely used things.

The report showed these properties in the district were present in both communities such as Brentwood and Central Islip as well as more affluent areas such as Bayport, Bellport and West Sayville.

In the more affluent areas within Manhattan the percentage is much higher — about 1 in 2 children in families that live in either the Upper East Side or Upper West Side.

Distemper has become a rare disease in the USA in affluent areas because of vaccines against it are so effective.

Then you can go one step beyond that as you can focus on certain affluent areas so that you're targeting parents that have the ability to spend a lot of money on a criminal defense lawyer to get their children out of trouble.

By allowing a «Schools of Hope» to open anywhere in a 5 mile radius from a «D» or «F» public school, legislators are ensuring that entire districts, even affluent areas, will qualify, triggering rapid charter growth.

That was the key finding in a recent Fortune article that pointed to the rise of mobile medical clinics in affluent areas like Silicon Valley.

Previous comments have hit on probably most of why more affluent consumers in Canada shop at Walmart than in the States: a combination of fewer higher - end retailers in the Canadian market, more dispersed affluent areas, less stigma attached to the brand, and potentially a higher level of frugality all contribute to Walmart attracting a higher percentage of affluent Canadian shoppers.

In practice Schools located within affluent areas prospered.

The CDC has case after case of infectious diseases being caught and transmitted in hospitals - from affluent areas down to the poorest hosptials.

Critics of the policy have argued affluent areas will be «cleansed» of welfare claimants causing social segregation and destitution in larger households.

«We have a challenge on Long Island because we look like a real affluent area, but there is significant need here for children of all incomes,» Hurley said.

The residencies of contender Mervyn Dymally and Wright were questioned because both of them owned homes in the district as well as in more affluent areas outside of the district.

Some of the biggest gaps in school readiness between poorer pupils and their wealthier peers are in traditionally affluent areas.

Although 69 % of students who applied for the DC vouchers lived in wards 1, 5, 7, and 8 (the least affluent areas of the city), only 40 % of DC voucher schools are located there.

This compared with 55 % of the poorest boys living in more affluent areas not going on to further academic study after GCSE.

Also, some libraries are staffed through funding by PTAs, and books are replenished by book fairs or school fundraisers, meaning that school libraries in more affluent areas now bear little resemblance to those in poorer neighborhood.

But the school failed to draw students from the surrounding affluent area, instead attracting many from neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

In a speech, Sir Michael Wilshaw said such pupils were often an «invisible minority» in schools rated good or outstanding in quite affluent areas.

The more affluent areas tend to charge a higher price for burial plots and when a loved one dies, you want to be able to arrange the most appropriate send off for them and also want to choose a suitable casket.

With more than 91,000 people and an average household income of over $ 94,000 within a three - mile radius of the properties, the acquisitions enhance the Trust's existing portfolio of properties located in densely populated affluent areas within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Its regional draw from more affluent areas also works in it favor, raises the average household income of the center itself to about $ 84,000.

For instance, in Sydney there are a couple of stores located in affluent areas where if you get there on just the right day (and there is really no rhyme or reason to which day this is), you can find a great quality piece.

The results for both strip centers and regional shopping centers reflect the income divide between the most affluent areas of the country and the rest, Severino said.

Indeed, this is also true on a geographic level, as those areas which are more affluent (such as London) have had a smaller reduction in tribunals compared to less affluent areas such as Wales and the south - west.

In many ways, this is the most conventional film of the bunch, a familiar - seeming network narrative of a few weeks in the lives of the residents of a particular street in a relatively affluent area of town.

Of course, if you face a divorce situation, no amount of statistics is going to make you feel significantly better but these figures are interesting, appearing to show perhaps a trend for more divorce in less affluent areas of the country, that the peak READ MORE

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