Sentences with phrase «as wealthy communities»

School districts serving communities where property is worth less simply can not generate the same level of revenue at the same tax rate as wealthier communities.

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This neighbourhood is in the historical Rothesay, which developed as a summer home community for Saint John's wealthy elite.

«One of our biggest requests is for the international community - wealthier nations - to provide more support to help organisations such as Tearfund who are on the ground to help more people.»

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

According to the Church of Scotland, Lochside is among the 40 poorest communities in the country while at the same time the St Columba's parish as a whole is among the wealthiest.

Such a shifting boundary, he suggests, could have significant implications for the wealthy congregation's relationship to the city, and for its identity as a moral community.

However, we can say with some confidence that central government schemes aimed at social justice tend to undermine community, retard economic growth, and exacerbate the differences between the poor and the wealthy in this country just as they did in South America.

The state's tourism economy is huge, but the town is hard enough to get to that it only has a small wealthy summer community, and doesn't draw as many day - trippers as the rest of the coast.

As Dana succinctly put it: «I worry about what happens to the poorer parts of America when the wealthier communities take a «I've got mine, now let everyone else go get theirs» attitude.»

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

As an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban communitAs an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban communitas public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban community.

As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.

Both Bill and Doug are long - time community organizers and are exactly what Baltimore needs to break the stranglehold the Democratic party machine has had for decades as well as the pay - to - play system that benefits wealthy developers and political insiders and leaves the citizens of this city out in the cold.

But the continuation of a higher surcharge on the state's wealthiest residents — not to mention the extension of a utility tax known as 18 - a — has infuriated the once pro-Cuomo business community.

In the ultimate gated community the wealthy and powerful shelter on a ring - world space station dubbed Elysium, enjoying the best in health care, among other perks, as everyone else suffers below on the overpopulated and environmentally trashed Earth.

Following an extreme event, such as a hurricane or a tornado, the costs and conditions that residents in lower - income communities would likely face, Kelly said, would probably be more detrimental than those that would be present in wealthier areas.

I was lucky enough to be raised in an affluent suburb, St. Charles, but as with most wealthy communities, not too far away, there are school districts that are severely underfunded.

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The Regency era saw the first real expansion of Brighton as a social hub, starting out life as a fishing community that was also a resort for the wealthy.

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The prematurely balding, intelligent, fast - talking Chase created a couple classic characters, notably Irwin M. Fletcher (aka Fletch) and Vacation's Clark Griswold, but his career is often thought of as plagued by misfires and missed opportunities, rather than touched by comic brilliance.Born on October 8, 1943, in New York City, Cornelius Crane Chase became known as «Chevy» when his grandmother nicknamed him after Chevy Chase, the wealthy Maryland community.

«Parents from low - income communities should be treated with as much respect as parents in wealthier neighborhoods.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

As Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders huddle over rival plans to restructure school funding, lawmakers in Colorado have devised a novel approach to directing more state money to disadvantaged students while calling on wealthier communities to raise their taxes if more is needed.

Even more sobering, the analysis shows that the largest gaps between white children and their minority classmates emerge in some of the wealthiest communities, such as Berkeley, Calif.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Evanston, Ill..

Though poor communities often tax themselves at higher rates than wealthier communities, their low tax base means they can't raise as much money as wealthier towns.

We also generally believe in voucher programs that would help children in poorer communities have the same opportunities to go to the same schools as their wealthier counterparts, almost always with a lower price - tag than simply sending them to failing public schools.

Previous research from Teach First has shown that the poorest communities are half as likely to be served by an outstanding secondary school compared to the wealthiest.2

While Connecticut ranks as among the wealthiest states in the nation, Connecticut's failed school funding system leaves many communities without the financial resources they need to ensure that all of the state's children have access to high quality educational opportunities.

As, the philosopher John Dewey once admonished, «what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that the community must want for all its children» — not just its white and wealthy ones.

Many are not wealthy, as the author suggests, but they find in their experience a richness of community and a commitment to a shared mission.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

Although buying a house in these neighborhoods may be risky, it is desirable, because in this environment black families can be the racial majority in a wealthy area, which is not typical in the black community as a whole.

There are many wealthy beach communities you could have chose as the backdrop for this story, is there anything particular that made you decide to use the Hamptons as the setting of the...

There are many wealthy beach communities you could have chose as the backdrop for this story, is there anything particular that made you decide to use the Hamptons as the setting of the book?

«Next to the parks is the Ocean Reef Club, a gated community that boasts some of South Florida's wealthiest residents — as well as the state's largest feral cat population.

This is an issue that could be addressed at a federal level as well: if the government can fund «flood insurance» that in so many instances subsidizes homeowners in wealthy communities who insist on building and living in places that are dangerous and inappropriate, why can't we establish something similar for low income families who want to take animals into their lives?

Sausalito developed rapidly as a shipbuilding center in World War II, with its industrial character giving way in postwar years to a reputation as a wealthy and artistic enclave, a picturesque residential community (incorporating large numbers of houseboats), and a tourist destination, and is adjacent to, and largely bounded by, the protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The model of the hermetic artist - genius in the studio who lives off a stipend from a wealthy commercial gallery and has a museum retrospective by the time she is thirty - five has been replaced by the model of artist as creative opportunity - maker and community - builder.

But, as Desmarais points out, this selective access to information and art in general equally impacts the community of CCA alumni, artists, and art goers who are more often not full - time arts writers or wealthy patrons but who are the supposed beneficiaries of the institution's relationship to the California College of the Arts.

New York City's director of innovation Jeff Merritt tells Motherboard about how he's working to ensure lower - income communities have access to the same tech as wealthy ones.

Existing disparities between low - income communities and wealthier ones, such as high unemployment rates, are exacerbated by such negative effects of climate change as storms and floods, the report said.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

But too often, low - income neighborhoods and communities of color get picked as sites for polluting factories, while wealthier, predominantly white communities are left alone.

Not only has the rally in cryptoassets made many community members very wealthy but more importantly we are finally seeing the first decentralized applications, such as EtherDelta and CryptoKitties, and blockchain projects that are moving beyond the proof - of - concept stage.