Sentences with phrase «affluent families with»

It curls around the western shore of a small lake just outside Algonquin Bay, Ontario, providing a pine - scented refuge for affluent families with young children, yuppies fond of canoes and kayaks, and an artful population of chipmunks chased by galumphing dogs.

It is our mission to provide affluent families with comfort and peace of mind so they can focus their energies on what matters most to them: their families, their businesses and careers and the charitable causes they pursue with passion.

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

A pensioner couple would suffer cuts equivalent to 16.2 per cent of their income, while an affluent family with children suffer cuts of 4.2 per cent.

Not exact matches

I grew up pretty affluent — frankly — spending summers touring with rock bands in Europe and in Asia with my family.

These plans mostly benefit affluent families, and Obama wanted to replace them with college subsidies targeted to people with low incomes.

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By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

Designed to meet the demands of «Boise's growing numbers of affluent families, who sought high - status schools filled with high - status children,» it is a school «created by elites for the children of elites.»

Ryan says many of the young men he works with are already marginalised, from ethnicminority groups or less affluent backgrounds; some may have come from families with a history of abuse or mental health issues, or have been in trouble at school.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

Combined with caps on housing benefit and significant hikes in social housing rents, poorer families could be chased out of more affluent areas.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

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A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

, 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.

He keeps running into the same unfortunate but attractive Mexican woman named Victoria (Sanchez - Gijon, The Machinist), who seems quite anguished about coming home to see her father (Giannini, Mimic) because she is pregnant, unmarried, and the father wants nothing to do with her — all of which will bring shame to the proud, affluent family.

The family lives in an ordinary, affluent American suburb and appears to be mostly normal, if a little formal with one another, until a menacing stranger enters their midst.

The man known as Andre 3000 in his music career also discussed his own experience of being an African - American family engaged with an affluent private school.

«Because, as a result, children from low - income families are less likely to attend schools with children from affluent families, and this ultimately isolates the poor kids.»

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.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Affluent kids are spending their days (and often their nights) at camp or traveling the world with their families, picking up knowledge, skills, and social connections that will help them thrive at school and beyond.

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.

The improvements in attainment tended to be strongest amongst pupils from less affluent families and amongst those with lower prior attainment.

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.»

(Better teachers tend to self - select into programs with children from more affluent and better educated families, and that is why the children may do better).

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

And, as before, to the extent that price is associated with quality and long - term outcomes, the disparity between affluent and poor families in the price being paid for center - based care is of concern.

Because the standard deviation for payments is so large (skewed upward by affluent families) I present the median for payments, along with the mean.

In other words, the financial pain of purchasing daycare and preschool services is less for more affluent compared to less affluent families, whereas the absolute price of the service is higher for more affluent families, with likely impacts on quality.

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

While higher - income families can afford high - priced, affluent properties in sought - after neighborhoods, lower - income families are usually left with housing options located in lower - quality areas.

But the union and NAACP also want to limit better educational options for low - income families who can't afford private schools and can't afford to move to an affluent neighborhood with decent public schools.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiWith just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiwith only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

That's why Robert Pondiscio concludes that the opting out is «a thing» primarily among «affluent, white, progressive families» that puts them «on a collision course with the low - income families of color who have been the primary beneficiaries of testing and accountability.»

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

Affluent families could afford to buy homes in expensive neighborhoods with high - quality schools.

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.»

He says that if pupils are in families that are struggling with unemployment, bad housing and poor health, the ability of schools to close the gap with more affluent children is going to be limited.

The first seeks to reduce the number of high - poverty schools, which tend to be segregated both by class and race, by dispersing students from poor families to schools with predominantly middle - class or affluent students.

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.

It grapples with the legacies of residential segregation and the abandonment of public schools by affluent families.

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.

Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems — attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students.

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.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

Affluent families can move to different neighborhoods, send their children to private schools, and supplement schooling with enrichment opportunities.

Chicago officials claim they can not force white students into schools with predominately poor and minority students, for fear that white affluent families will flee public schools.

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.