Sentences with phrase «by wealthy communities»

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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.

• Gary R. Roberts, Tulane law professor, in USA Today: «Player - owner disputes are simply quarrels about how a huge pot of money extracted from fans and communities will be divided by two extremely wealthy groups.»

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.

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

His campaign attracted criticism when he joked that the election was «a simple choice between good and evil», [302] and when he was accused of anti-semitism by Jewish Labour supporters for suggesting that being largely wealthy, the Jewish community would not vote for him.

Additionally, Imperiale wants to prevent hyper - development in District 1, and believes that Council Member Chin has «sold out» communities within the district by favoring wealthy developers over everyday constituents.

«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.

He is the only Democrat who will break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» de Blasio's campaign manager said in a statement.

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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.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

The $ 11 million spent on I - 1240 came almost entirely from a cadre of wealthy education reformers, most from the tech community, headed by Microsoft's Bill Gates.

Children from low income and underserved communities do not have access to the quality of educational resources enjoyed by peers in wealthier communities.

While wealthier families can meet their children's individual needs by moving to communities with higher - performing public schools or paying tuition at an independent school, most low - income families lack the financial capacity to do either.

Let's be honest: this is a movement led primarily by white middle - class and wealthy individuals, yet primarily serving low - income communities of color.

Nearly 9 in 10 respondents said it was a problem for public schools in low - income communities to have fewer qualified teachers than public schools in wealthier areas, and a majority felt that shortages should not be resolved by recruiting individuals who are not fully prepared — the very thing many districts have been forced to do in response to deep shortages across the state.

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

In addition, rather than appropriately fund Connecticut's education grants, Malloy's budget plan seeks to redirect existing state aid for public schools to Connecticut's poorer towns by slashing grants to wealthier and middle income communities.

While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

[54] While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

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.

I get bothered by the segregation of the Hamptons, where the very wealthy elite live on one side and underserved communities on another.

Arnaud believes it's a fascinating beach, surrounded by working class communities that give a nod to Estonia's communist past; an industrial port with abandoned warehouses to the east and richer suburbs and wealthy gated properties on the western side that show a more prosperous country today.

In 2008, five million cubic yards of coal ash, a toxic by - product of burning coal, spilled from the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee into the surrounding wealthy community.

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.

Having fought industrial wind development for years in my community, I have come to understand that only a grassroots rebellion, led by rural environmentalists against the wealthy, powerful, special - interest, urban fake - environmentalists will be able to turn the tide.

This will obviously have some impact on the power wielded by institutions and wealthy individuals, although Ethereum Foundation community manager Hudson Jameson isn't too concerned.

«Over the past few weeks, we've been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm towards Robinhood Crypto and are excited to contribute to the cryptocurrency community in a meaningful way... With the release of Robinhood Crypto, we're continuing our mission of making the financial system work for everyone, not just the wealthy.»

Bitcoin Cash is backed by some of the wealthiest players in the bitcoin community, such as Roger Ver, who are actively trying to promote Bitcoin Cash as the «real bitcoin» that Satoshi Nakamoto formulated in 2008.

Seventy - eight percent of the 250 wealthiest communities in the United States, as measured by median home prices, are located in just seven states — with 30 percent clustered in California towns alone.