Sentences with phrase «affluent neighborhoods of»

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

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.The purpose is to humanely trap and give the cats immediate vet care, neutering, and vaccinations.The cats are either adopted out or taken to the F.L.O.C.K. sanctuary to live out their lives in comfort for as long as they are with us.Sylvia Renee Lyss has devoted her life to helping stray and unwanted cats and kittens.She has been actively doing this work for over the last 30 years in Las Vegas.

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.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

This is no small feat and even more surprising that the first student to do this in Indiana's history is from Gary, Indiana, not the more affluent neighborhoods of Zionsville, Carmel, Fishers and others in the state.

Her parents, who lived in an affluent neighborhood of Long Island's Suffolk County, found her in the shower when they heard the water running too long.

Some residents in the surrounding area are now going to have to get flood insurance while properties in the more affluent neighborhood of Meadowbrook were taken off the maps.

To the south of North Long Beach, you'll find the affluent neighborhood of Bixby Knolls as well as the Del Amo Boulevard.

Not exact matches

So if you know of an affluent area nearby that would be able to afford your services, the entire neighborhood can be targeted.

Residents of Baltimore's less affluent communities have been complaining for years about tax incentives for waterfront development and crumbs for neighborhoods struggling to survive, and no amount of explanation about the difference between tax increment financing and direct city subsidies can...

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.

Sen. Barack Obama won the college towns and the gentrified neighborhoods of more affluent communities.

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.

They had turned their backs on the problems of those less - affluent Jews who preferred to remain in the old neighborhoods rather than to relocate to the suburbs.

He has become frustrated with this vision of ministry to the affluent and wants to start a church in a run - down inner - city neighborhood where relationships can be built among downwardly mobile people of a variety of ethnic backgrounds.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

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..

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.

Of course the more affluent neighborhoods are spared.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

The district contains a mix of affluent, GOP - leaning suburbs and poorer, heavily Democratic city neighborhoods.

She's mounted an aggressive campaign in many of Syracuse's less affluent neighborhoods, spearheaded by a young, hungry campaign manager.

The surprise is that Clinton, which routinely smacks down affluent schools in these competitions, is not full of college - bound kids from fancy neighborhoods; it is full of everyday kids whose parents work in blue - collar jobs.

MIAMI — One of the first sea - level rise maps Broadway Harewood saw was a few years back, when climate activists gathered in his neighborhood to talk about how global warming would affect people in less - affluent South Florida communities.

Based on Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead, Nothing is Private follows an Arab - American teenager (Summer Bishil's Jasira) as she encounters a number of quirky characters - including a racist reservist (Aaron Eckhart) and a nosy neighbor (Toni Collette)- after moving to an affluent Texas neighborhood.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

Wildwood International Baccalaureate World Magnet School is a public, non-selective enrollment neighborhood magnet school in an affluent part of Chicago, offering available seats to students city - wide.

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.

In contrast to the affluent towns on the west side of the park, only 40 percent of adults in this neighborhood graduated from high school.

That's changed because more families (mostly white, virtually all of them affluent and well - educated) are living in west - of - the - park neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase.

As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

How exactly is Midtown West not skewing the diversity of the neighborhood schools or stealing away top performers and their affluent, involved parents?

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

In the more affluent northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Mt. Airy, Kimberly Newman, principal of Henry H. Houston Elementary School, started a prekindergarten program this year to provide a neighborhood school to serve young families.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

The improved rate at Woodson in a low - income neighborhood in Northeast Washington puts the school above the citywide average and just five points shy of the graduation rate for Woodrow Wilson High School, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part of town.

Most often, more affluent students are zoned to schools filled with the affluent peers in their neighborhood, and lower - income students are zoned to schools with students of similar backgrounds.

It is so successful that even affluent Montgomery County, which usually resists departures from its highly rated public school programs, is trying to get KIPP to put a school in one of its low - income neighborhoods.

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

In Boston, 241 out of 255 precincts (95 %) voted No on 2; the 14 precincts that voted yes were largely more affluent, white neighborhoods.

In the review of the dynamic Flickr map and the photographs, teacher candidates quickly realized that more instances of walkability examples were identified in neighborhoods that were close to the university or that housed affluent populations.

Not much further away, in an affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood, is a high - performing school where nearly half of the students are white.

Ward 3, encompassing some of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, has nearly a quarter of the best teachers, but only 8 percent of the worst.

A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle - income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.

Ward 3, encompassing some of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, has nearly a quarter of the best teachers, but only eight percent of the worst.

As the report says: «One has a better chance of attending a distinguished school in grades 6 - 12 if one is willing to leave Denver's more affluent neighborhoods.»