Sentences with phrase «attract white parents»

Yet at the heart of this pedagogical desire was really a need to attract white parents, parents who otherwise wouldn't send their children to urban schools.

Attracting white parents was critical.

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But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

Back in 2002, even before Bingham and White got going, a Mt. Airy father named Kevin Peters started a group to attract other neighborhood parents to the local grade school, C. W. Henry Elementary School.

Brooke Parker, a founder of Williamsburg and Greenpoint Parents: Our Public Schools, said advocates for the charter had been looking to attract white families, recruiting in the same places that the more savvy magnet schools had gone.

On the other hand, frustrated parents argue that the focus on integration forces schools to put their resources into attracting students from whiter, wealthier towns.

In fact, manufactured homes — the industry's preferred term since the mid-1980s for HUD - approved, factory - constructed mobile homes — are attracting all sorts of new buyers these days, from single parents to empty nesters to white - collar, middle - income families who want more square footage for their housing dollars.