Sentences with phrase «affluent families give»

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Dustin Moskovitz is part of the Giving Pledge, through which many affluent individuals dedicate their family wealth to philanthropy.

Yet we should also concede that intact families, communities with strong social capital, and households with plentiful resources for good health care, healthy meals, enrichment programs, and the like give affluent children an advantage that most of their poor peers will never be able to overcome.

Charter schools have been seen as a way to give parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more affluent families have always had by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

In response to a legislative proposal creating such a program, a spokesman for the governor said «This voucher mechanism is concerning because it shifts public funds away from public schools, and it does so in a way that gives larger vouchers to more affluent families.»

She also dragged out the tired argument that the gap between rich and poor will be exacerbated by «giving a public subsidy to affluent families that choose elite private schools, which are unlikely to admit students who struggle academically or can not afford tuition even with a voucher.»

As the Washington Post wrote in a recent editorial, «The scholarships provide a lifeline to low - income and underserved families, giving them the school choice that more affluent families take as a given.»

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

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.

Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school.