Sentences with phrase «affluent neighborhoods»

Generally, of course, schools in affluent neighborhoods have high test scores.

Those living in more affluent neighborhoods outside the city have another advantage.

We are lucky enough to come from a very affluent neighborhood.

Particularly during the early stages, bike share is often concentrated in more affluent neighborhoods within a city, such as central business districts.

Poor children are not given the same high - quality education that children from affluent neighborhoods are given, and certainly not ever without a struggle from parents.

Such funding would give affluent neighborhoods an unfair advantage over poorer neighborhoods where parents can not afford to raise such large sums.

As a general rule, fines tend to be higher in more affluent neighborhoods and cheaper in poorer ones.

Just chasing retail space in affluent neighborhoods isn't enough to build a retail chain.

Sylvia Renee Lyss, founder of F.L.O.C.K., and her volunteers go out on a regular basis, usually at night, to the casino back alleys and into the less affluent neighborhoods of Las Vegas to maintain «Feeding Stations» with water and food for a multitude of stray and wild cats.

In the metro Chicago market, some grocers place stores only in affluent neighborhoods with advanced retail hub economies.

Buffalo was experimenting on a small scale with «tipper totes» — large, rat - proof garbage containers designed for easy loading by trucks — but only in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods and with no plan for wider use.

Whiter and more affluent neighborhoods like Riverdale, the Upper East Side, Forest Hills and eastern Queens also favored centrist rivals like Ms. Quinn in the Democratic primary.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

Democrats view the seventh district, which includes Rice University and affluent neighborhoods on Houston's west side, as a ripe target because it went narrowly for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 after previously supporting Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain by large margins in the 2012 and 2008 presidential contests, respectively.

I think the story of the Harlem Children's Zone is relevant to middle - class and affluent neighborhoods too.

When school district budgets are cut, parents in more affluent neighborhoods essentially tax themselves to provide librarians, after - school programs, field trips and other needs.

Hauger believes that the project - based learning framework is flexible enough to accommodate the needs of schools serving affluent neighborhoods and those serving under - resourced neighborhoods because, at its core, he says, is the effort to build a real sense of community where kids feel safe enough to take risks, identify their passions and act on honest self - evaluations of their strengths and weaknesses.

The Orinda case drew special attention when it became public last fall, in part because the district had hired a private investigator to visit the child's other, less affluent neighborhood about 20 miles away.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

Children — nearly three - quarters were black — who moved into and attended schools in more affluent neighborhoods outperformed comparable children who attended schools with higher proportions of low - income students (Schwartz, 2010).

But the nation's largest bike - share system is now confronting a larger question: Is it an amenity for mostly affluent neighborhoods, or a public transportation system for all New Yorkers?

An Utah auto insurance company is savvy, and from your zip code, they can derive a general idea of your financial status judging from how affluent your neighborhood is.

Affluent neighborhoods north have also brought commercial businesses including the «power mall» Pinehurst Square.

Consistent with this notion, an experimental study revealed that youths» violent delinquent behavior was reduced by relocating their families to more affluent neighborhoods [29].

The fully - leased center has outstanding demographics, and is well - positioned to serve the nearby affluent neighborhoods of McLean and Great Falls.

Prioritizing your «must haves,» your «want to haves,» and your «would be nice to have» will help you determine what affluent neighborhoods you want to live and will ultimately help you find the home you're looking for.

To the north, cost of living is much higher and crime much lower in ZIP codes 30307 and 30306, which include affluent neighborhoods such as Virginia Highland.

And it was right on the border of Garden City, a very affluent neighborhood with a top - notch public school district.

While Nicoletti approached mostly familiar faces in the city's most affluent neighborhood, Perez Williams spent her time trying to turn out new voters.

Quite a bit in some of the more affluent neighborhoods of Queens around Forest Hills.

That school's going to get better and better, and people from the city, even people in affluent neighborhoods like where I live, are going to look at that and say, «I want a school like that.

That feedback persuaded the chancellor to remove five schools from her original closure list, including Garrison Elementary and Francis - Stevens Education Campus, two Northwest Washington schools in relatively affluent neighborhoods.

Extreme heat also brings greater risk of death from dehydration, heat stroke, heart attack, and other heat - related illnesses, particularly for less affluent neighborhoods that may lack shade trees and access to air conditioning.

As Success expands into more affluent neighborhoods, will upper - income parents support its program?

In New York City, the Harlem - based Success Academy Charter Schools, headed by former city council member Eva Moskowitz, attracted opposition when it opened charter schools in affluent neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Upper West Side.

It's not necessary to live near an affluent neighborhood to start a housecleaning service.

When the Cruzes first moved into this affluent neighborhood in Parkland, Fla., they seemed like a model family — an older couple raising two adopted young boys.

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

Each April, yard signs spring up in all the affluent neighborhoods in town, proclaiming support for an event aimed at children ages ten through fourteen.

When her new boyfriend leaves his affluent neighborhood to pick Christine up for a date, he exclaims «I didn't realize there were actual railroad tracks!»

I even heard that Val asks her husband not to jog at night in their affluent neighborhood.

Chief among the findings was the consuming degree to which Wiltshire Church cultivated its private life and the self - centered values of its affluent neighborhood.

«Always pay close attention to your surroundings, son, especially if you are in an affluent neighborhood where black folks are few.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

I had spent the morning at an elementary school in an affluent neighborhood outside of Syracuse teaching kids in summer school.

«But as we address the important issue on how to shut [Rikers] down, we also need to use the opportunity to address another stigma — one that resonates in lower - income communities, mostly of color, who for far too long have taken on more than their fair share of the types of facilities more affluent neighborhoods have refused to accept,» Salamanca stated.