Sentences with phrase «affluent white neighborhoods»

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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.

Sited in an affluent neighborhood in northern Dallas, the White House replica remained on the market...

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.

But there's a problem: Once changes at a school are underway, how can they be stopped from turning the building into an affluent, white enclave — especially if the surrounding neighborhood becomes mostly affluent and white?

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.

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 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.

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

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

Research has shown that minority students attending inner - city campuses are more likely to be held back a grade than their white peers at more affluent neighborhood schools.

When more affluent, white people feel they can purchase homes without committing to send their children to the neighborhood school, they are more likely to be willing to move in to struggling communities, taking advantage of lower housing prices.

For now, most TJ students come from a group of middle schools that serve neighborhoods that are mostly affluent and mostly white or Asian.