Sentences with phrase «affluent families began»

But as the neighborhood gentrified, affluent families began flooding the school's lottery.

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, The Oranges — taking its cryptically metaphorical name from the affluent New Jersey neighbourhood in which the film is set — finds two close families rended asunder when Meester's Nina rebounds from heartbreak with her father's best friend, David (Laurie), whose loveless marriage has him sleeping in his «man cave» most nights and counting down the minutes'til his perfunctory mid-life crisis can begin in earnest.

Children from low - income families begin kindergarten with less preparation for school than the children of the affluent, they attend schools which face greater challenges with fewer resources, and they score lower on standardized tests.

This allows families with more modest incomes to access more and diverse schooling options for their children, a luxury only affluent families could enjoy before educational choice began to take hold in the states.

When the young daughter of an affluent banker drowns in the Tamassee River, her family employing its wealth and influence begins a campaign to build a dam so that they can retrieve her body.

Kusama, who was born to an affluent family in Japan in 1929, began as a painter but shifted her focus to installation and sculpture in the mid-1960s.