Sentences with phrase «affluent families get»

Children from more - affluent families get half that amount in vouchers.

There are two tiers to the program: less affluent families get the statewide average basic support per - pupil, or around $ 5,700, while wealthier families receive $ 5,100.

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Their work didn't get a whole lot of publicity, at least not until recently, when it was mentioned in an Atlantic magazine cover article, «The Secret Shame of Middle - Class Americans,» about relatively affluent families living paycheck to paycheck.

Most minority and disadvantaged students will not get that extra support to accelerate, and whatever is left of those advanced classes will be filled mostly with student coming from affluent families.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

Lots of affluent, mainly white families have been moving into new condos in the waterfront area called DUMBO, and the local elementary school is getting overcrowded.

If we want low - income students from less - educated families to get the same kind of high school education their more affluent peers are getting, we need to give them access to the same knowledge those peers are taking in at home.