When Phoenix - based Great Hearts Academies pitched a charter school in West Nashville after a push
by affluent parents, it sparked a raging debate last summer.
Even if districts successfully implement policies to redistribute parent dollars and reduce funding inequities, they might still risk broader disengagement
by affluent parents.
Her teenage patients were bright, socially skilled, and loved
by their affluent parents.
District leaders should promote awareness of the discrepancies in funding and resources prior to the rollout of the policy and carefully select key messengers who are well - respected
by affluent parent groups.
Not exact matches
Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve
affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get
by in more trying times.
This is in contrast to the usual ranking of schools
by test score averages, which is more of an indication of how
affluent the
parents are than of how good the school is.
Or are they simply being dragged along
by a new wave of
affluent, affected
parents who wouldn't be caught dead at Disneyland?
Rose's
parents, Dean and Missy — played
by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of
affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».
Austin is a hard - driving politico from the
affluent west side of L.A., and now the unlikely head of
Parent Revolution, a mostly Latina advocacy group led
by the Los Angeles
Parents Union and bankrolled
by Broad and charter proponents.
The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them
by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more
affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children
by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.
Single - sex schools are primarily private and most often a choice made
by more
affluent and better - educated
parents.
For middle - class and
affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter
parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed
by the process nor intimidated
by pitfalls.
«Surely this question was settled eight years ago in a decision that was the seventh consecutive defeat for the disgustingly determined people who are implacably opposed to any policies that enable
parents who are not
affluent to exercise the right of school choice that is routinely exercised
by more fortunate Americans,» writes George Will.
Brooks focuses his concern on the
parenting style of privileged Americans, coining a brilliant neologism in the process, «pediacracy,»
by which he means the determination of
affluent parents to give their kids a leg up.
This customer subsample of
parents is, not surprisingly, more educated and
affluent than
parents who are identically selected except that the costs of their child's attendance are covered in whole or in part
by entities outside the family.
Charter schools have been seen as a way to give
parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more
affluent families have always had
by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.
In these various consultations, there is a group of
parents and community members — white and relatively
affluent — deemed very influential
by district staff members.
As proven
by Stanford's Sean Reardon, the widening of the achievement gap results from additional opportunities
affluent parents provide their children out of the K - 12 environment: high - quality pre-K, tutoring, and after - school and summer enrichment.
Other white and
affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered
by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.
However, there's plenty of evidence that shopping for schools is complicated
by information asymmetries between schools and
parents and extensive stratification in access to information between low - income and more
affluent parents.
But the way
affluent parents raise their kids equips them to do better in school:
by the time they enter kindergarten, the skills and knowledge of the most
affluent children far exceed those possessed
by their low - income peers.
Monica Warren - Jones, a
parent and Ward 6 representative to the DC State Board of Education, said she is thrilled
by the results and looks forward to when there is no achievement gap between poor children and their more
affluent peers.
-- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids -
by Madeline Levine, PhD «This should be required reading for all young
affluent parents.»
A Class - A seniors housing property needs community dining rooms and other high - quality amenities, and it needs to be in a market that's not merely
affluent, but populated with a lot of
affluent adult children —
by which I mean people ages 45 to 65 whose
parents are in need of personal - care services.