Sentences with phrase «affluent suburban»

LeZotte: Generally speaking, they are similar to Class - A apartment properties — well - maintained product built in the last 10 years in an affluent suburban or urban setting.

Defending Jacob is about an assistant D.A. in an affluent suburban Massachusetts town whose life is completely turned upside down when his 14 - year - old son is accused of murder.

LOS ANGELES, California — There are a few cars that come to mind when the topic of grocery store parking lot stalwarts comes up, but few are as deeply entrenched in affluent suburban culture as the Lexus RX.

PITTSBURGH — Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city's low - income, high - crime Beechview neighborhood.

For more affluent suburban families, a large number of AP courses and a school culture that values AP coursework may be a huge draw; in addition to attending a diverse magnet school, their children will be better prepared for college matriculation and the college application process.

In 1998, the future AF founders started Amistad Academy, a public charter school in New Haven, CT with the goal of proving «that urban students can achieve at the same high levels as their affluent suburban counterparts» (Achievement First, 2017a).

Let's bring back common sense in managing this large, affluent suburban school district.

We welcome articles on serving immigrant students, ELLs, and homeless youth; solutions for resource shortages in rural areas; and supports for low - income students who attend relatively affluent suburban schools.

Do high achievement - test scores by students in an affluent suburban school tell us that those students have been appropriately taught?

One article from Boston Magazine describes the situation in affluent suburban public schools, but it completely replicates my own experience in urban private schools:

For this and other reasons, affluent suburban towns are among the many that do not have programs for gifted children.

Once predominantly white and affluent suburban school systems, for example, are increasingly confronted with a host of demographic issues formerly associated primarily with urban districts.

Thousands of families in Chicago Public Schools, affluent suburban districts and downstate allowed their children to forgo the exams, often citing the length of the tests and concerns about the amount of testing in schools.

The Shoemaker campus visited Tuesday has outperformed some of its more affluent suburban counterparts on state standardized tests.

The figures quoted above about the availability of computers in schools do not provide details about the types and quality of computer technology available to students and teachers in high - poverty urban school settings as opposed to those in more affluent suburban schools.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

«But many of our affluent suburban school districts are barely keeping pace with the average student in our international comparison group.»

Joan also wrote, «Every time I encounter an idea like unbundling, I'm struck by this thought: This is an idea that some folks think would be great in urban schools, but they'd never accept it in affluent suburban communities.»

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

Those who can afford to reside in affluent suburban areas can choose where they live and thus which schools their children will attend.

(At least affluent suburban districts can tap local sources too.)

«Parents who live in affluent suburban communities want their children to learn a second language,» says Hahnel at Education Trust - West.

White flight to more affluent suburban schools made integration less likely.

There are an endless number of interesting stories that could be told with this information, but the one that really stood out to us is that achievement in many of our affluent suburban public school districts barely keeps pace with that of the average student in a developed country.

(Some affluent suburban schools are still holding out.)

State accountability systems emphasize in - state comparisons between suburban and urban districts, which give impressions of relatively high achievement in more affluent suburban districts.

Unfortunately, student achievement in many affluent suburban districts is worse than parents may think, especially when compared with student achievement in other developed countries.

Problems exist in large urban districts and in low - income rural areas, elites often concede, but they have convinced themselves that at least their own children are receiving an excellent education in their affluent suburban districts.

The push for bilingualism often comes from English - speaking parents who live in affluent suburban communities and want their children to learn a second language, according to Education Trust - West.

But state accountability systems and the desire to rationalize the lack of quality options have encouraged the elites to compare their affluent suburban districts to the large urban ones in their state.

While many affluent suburban districts have lower achievement than we might expect, some districts are producing very high achievement even when compared with that of students in other developed countries.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

Finally, teachers object strongly to the massive amount of reporting and editorializing abot MCAS results and believe that the unfair comparisons drawn between urban districts and affluent suburban communities are destructive to the educational climate and demoralizing to vast numbers of teachers, students, and parents.

During my 17 years as a high school principal I have worked in districts that were rural economically disadvantaged as well as affluent suburban.

NO GOOD DEED If you're an affluent suburban housewife (Taraji P. Henson), should you offer assistance when an escaped convict shows up on your doorstep?

The district, which includes the city of Peekskill, as well as rural areas and affluent suburban communities like Pound Ridge and Bedford, has traditionally voted Republican, though Democratic registration has been persistently climbing.

The influence of such socio - demographic factors on registration rates also renders under - registration a far bigger problem in disadvantaged inner - urban areas than in more affluent suburban and rural areas.

Another moved here to run for a U.S. Senate seat, settling in an affluent suburban neighborhood in Westchester County following a «listening tour» in upstate New York.

The Democratic turnout was particularly strong in affluent suburban areas the party is targeting in its quest to wrest control of the House in the first national referendum on Donald Trump's presidency, Bloomberg reported.

It's the brand all the affluent suburban moms outfit their kids in so you know it's top stuff.

He got into coaching to help kids, and left jobs at more affluent suburban schools to so that he could be work to be a positive force in the lives of students and athletes at Richmond High.

Many of the most vulnerable seats House Republicans will have to defend in 2018 are in places like Orange County, California, or affluent suburban areas of New Jersey.

Not exact matches

The two - term congresswoman won re-election last fall by 6 points, but she represents the affluent and highly - educated suburban 10th District that Clinton carried by 10 points.

In Minnesota, Democrats are close to landing a prized recruit to run against Representative Erik Paulsen in an affluent Minneapolis suburban district that Mrs. Clinton carried by nearly 10 percentage points.

Trump, they say, has accelerated the party's «demographic pivot» into more affluent, better educated, suburban districts.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton had surprising success peeling away affluent, suburban Republicans, though it still wasn't enough to win her the state.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

The district, suburban in character, is one of the most diverse in the city, with a booming South Asian population and traditionally affluent Jewish and Italian - American communities.

While all this is happening, less affluent parts of the island have begun to grapple with issues that do not feel suburban at all.

Politics: A reliable Labour seat - the working class areas are strongly Labour and the more affluent areas are just as much the trendy intelligentsia as suburban conservatives, splitting the non-Labour vote here between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.