Sentences with phrase «black middle class district»

The 2008 financial collapse ravaged State Senator Sanders» homeowner - heavy, black middle class district, and the politician himself faced foreclosure on a half - million dollar mortgage he took out on his house.

Not exact matches

City Council Watch attended a debate in the 6th Council District on Columbus Avenue this week, where we observed about four dozen elderly black and Jewish voters munch on cookies and fruit, and murmur amongst themselves about the slate of candidates who would presume to fill the shoes of the beloved CM Gale Brewer, champion of the liberal middle - class.

Black districts are becoming more middle class and Hispanic districts are beginning to encompass a greater range of Latino ethnicities,» Bositis said.

They show the contrasts we would expect between a high school in an urban and predominantly black school district, and one in a suburban, predominantly white, and middle - class county.

During the 1970s the school district had experienced a massive exodus of middle - class white and black students.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

It's hard to imagine public authorities closing down 50 schools largely populated by middle class Euro - Americans; but this policy was enacted in the largely black and Latino district of Chicago, and it was done in the face of strong protests by the community.