Sentences with phrase «affluent areas such»

Summer Matters» Khalilnaji - Otto noted that in California, especially in more affluent areas such as the Bay Area, summer camps may cost up to $ 500 per week.

In 1978, California voters passed Proposition 13, which resulted in reduced funding for public schools, which accelerated the growth and popularity of private schools, especially in affluent areas such as the Peninsula and South Bay, which enjoyed the fruits of the Silicon Valley high - tech boom.

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From a recent article in The Bay Citizen I learned that about two dozen small, affluent public schools in the California Bay Area have opted out of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and instead have hired small catering companies (such as... [Continue reading]

The influence of such socio - demographic factors on registration rates also renders under - registration a far bigger problem in disadvantaged inner - urban areas than in more affluent suburban and rural areas.

Conversely, some affluent areas - such as West Berkshire, Cotswold and Crawley - are amongst the worst for offering good education, employment opportunities and affordable housing to their more disadvantaged residents.

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

The fact that skills in these areas can not be easily assessed should not trouble us since most middle - class and affluent children receive such an education already and typically no one asks for evidence that such an approach has an impact on their test scores.

Such claims are an attempt to explain away the fact that charters like Success are out - performing district schools; in fact, Success ranked in the top one percent of all New York state schools in math and the top three percent in English, outperforming schools in far more affluent areas.

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

Although neglected building sites remain from recession - thwarted projects, the more affluent area of the Strip — from Mandalay Bay to the Wynn — has been burnished in recent years by upscale hotel additions such as the Aria and the Cosmopolitan.

The problem here is that for decades those affluent enough to live in nice areas away from environmental problems such as living near a power station, on inside heavily polluted inner - urban areas have simply done so, externalising the visual and environmental costs of their lifestyle on to people who are poorer than themselves.

Krebs opened an account at one such site called «rock3d.cc» and observed how the site tried to upsell fraudsters for services such as specific searches for card information from people living in a particularly affluent area of town.

Affluent baby boomers from peripheral areas such as Forest Hill, Rosedale and Summerhill, are also making their way into the heart of the city.