Sentences with phrase «class family in the city»

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With the apparently low rate of compliance, the report is recommending the city enact legislation that requires companies like Airbnb and vacation - rental site VRBO to provide hosts» addresses and booking information and give San Francisco's planning department the ability to fine platforms listing unregistered hosts — measures that Airbnb says «would make it even harder for middle class families to stay in San Francisco and pay the bills.»

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

While marriage and family are in fairly sturdy shape among college - educated whites, the nuclear family has almost disappeared among inner - city blacks and appears to be in increasing trouble among working - class whites.

this is a great organization «Cooking Matters» - I will be partnering with them in 2011 to teach cooking classes to inner city families, I'm really looking forward to it.

They're from middle - class families — Felder's father is a mechanical engineer, Vettori's a lieutenant in the Austrian army — and when the two have spare time, they often relax by hopping into a Volkswagen bus and driving off to Italy for some surfing or to a major city where they can check out the latest rock bands.

He's settled in to the city but does nt have means to do anything: finish getting his degree, take classes he needs for acting, take me out, fly to see his mom, fly to see my family, go to movies, barely has enough money to buy groceries.

Natalie expanded her support by offering classes to local families in New York City which has become the hot ticket in town for expectant parents of twins.

In Detroit, the city recreation department operates a family biking class.

Faulkner has vowed to tackle the city's convoluted, unfair property tax system, which gives huge financial advantages to owners of single - family homes in gentrifying neighborhoods but penalizes working - class homeowners and hits big commercial real estate owners especially hard.

The pro-charter-school group Families for Excellent Schools said even more needs to be done to comply with state and federal bullying laws, which is why the organization is a plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit against DOE, filed in April 2016, along with 23 parents whose children have experienced bullying and harassment in city schools.

Since New York City public schools would not guarantee him an education without placing him in special education classes, his family bought a home in the Long Island suburb of Hempstead so that he could attend mainstream classes there.

We look forward to meeting Michael Grimm in our scheduled future debates, where Domenic will proudly match his record of fighting for middle class families to improve our schools and protect our city against Michael Grimm's embarrassing and failed leadership,» Weinstein wrote.

(CNN)-- Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who in a repentant interview last week said he was considering a run for New York mayor, released a document Sunday detailing a plan to restore the city as a place for middle class families.

«It is unacceptable that the governor would close a world - class children's facility and force Long Island families in need to travel to New York City for care.»

With the scope of the health risks still unclear, a class - action case against New York City, in connection with the failure to conduct lead inspections in public housing, is now being prepared by a lead lawyer for families suing over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich..

CITY HALL — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn promised more affordable day care for middle - class families and a new approach to education in her annual State of the City address Thursday, which was widely seen as a preview of her anticipated run for mayor.

In announcing his plan last week to cover the tuition of students accepted at a state or city college or university — provided their families earn no more than $ 125,000 a year — Governor Cuomo said: «This is a message that is going to provide hope and optimism for working - class families all across the state.»

The new analysis sheds light on how Airbnb listings, particularly in neighborhoods where they are most heavily concentrated, exacerbate New York City's affordability challenges and make it harder for working - and middle - class families to make ends meet... Airbnb listings were heavily concentrated in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn and had a greater impact on these neighborhoods.

This Wednesday «rally follows the release of Families for Excellent Schools» white paper, «A Tale of Two School Systems, «in August, which found that black and Hispanic students are confined to a second - class system of the city's worst performing schools.

Community activists say the city's plan to rezone a swath of the neighborhood between East 104th and 132nd streets from Park to Second avenues, and between East 126th and 132nd streets between Madison and Fifth avenues to allow high - density development will hasten gentrification and displace working - class families in the neighborhood.

Smallpox is doubtless uncommon among that class of people who burn gas for [light] in our cities because they generally have sufficient intelligence and forethought to attend to the vaccination of their families and its ravages are almost wholly confined to that improvident class who make no provision against the smallpox or anything else in the future and who live by the light of burning fluid.»

Though he pointed out that some Negroes were managing to move into the middle class, he focused on documenting what he argued was the deteriorating situation of impoverished black families in the inner cities: «The family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown.»

The Catholic schools in this city have provided genuine choice for children from low - income and working - class families for more than 150 years.

Ninety - five percent of students at Redwood City's Hoover School, in San Mateo County, come from low - income and working - class Latino families, and nearly all start school as English language learners (ELLs).

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Another is a fear that the revitalization of big cities like Chicago will be blocked if the schools in these places are not made more attractive to middle - class families.

NYC Teachers Recall 9/11 Many New York City teachers on September 11, 2001, had to push aside the average person's concern for self and family and focus on the safety of the frightened children in their classes.

Steve Walker, director of children and families at Leeds City Council, said: «Our ambition is for Leeds to be the best city to live and grow up in for all its children and young people, and the council has invested # 45 million to ensure that children with social, emotional and mental health needs have access to world class learning provisCity Council, said: «Our ambition is for Leeds to be the best city to live and grow up in for all its children and young people, and the council has invested # 45 million to ensure that children with social, emotional and mental health needs have access to world class learning proviscity to live and grow up in for all its children and young people, and the council has invested # 45 million to ensure that children with social, emotional and mental health needs have access to world class learning provision.

With more resources at their disposal than their parents or grandparents had, blue - collar, middle - class families — often Catholic — were able to leave the cities for homes in America's growing suburbs.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

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But with millions of Catholics today firmly rooted in the middle class and above, it's also easy to forget that 50, 75, and 100 years ago, America's urban poor were often recent Catholic immigrants facing many of the same obstacles as today's impoverished inner - city families.

Jackson's Letter to the Editor was written in response to another Letter published last week, in which Judith Kafka, a professor at City University of New York, argued for increased school integration for children from low - income, middle - class and wealthy families.

His cuts have hurt middle - class and poor schools across the state, but despite the crisis, the Philadelphia school district has attracted a new generation of middle - class families eschewing the suburbs for city life — a diverse constituency that state politicians will find it far more difficult to ignore, at least in the long term.

The movie features five children and their parents — including a middle - class family from Redwood City — who have applied to independently run public charter schools in search of an education they don't think their neighborhood school will afford them.

Especially communities in the inner - ring suburbs of flourishing cities, which are increasingly becoming magnets for poor and working - class families priced out of gentrifying areas?

Today's school - choice programs are little short of a godsend for impoverished families stuck in awful city schools, but they generally have little to offer most middle - class families.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

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.

Many middle - class families at least consult a website like GreatSchools.org, which rates schools in various cities and displays comments from parents.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 20City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 20city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

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In most major cities, even middle - class families are eligible for subsidy, explains Martha Friendly, founder and executive director of the Child Care Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), a Toronto - based think tank.

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You'll travel off - the - beaten path with guided tours that include... wine tasting and local cuisine in family owned villas, walking city food tours, hands - on cooking classes and cultural experiences like village festivals throughout Italy.

Then it was a very long business class flight to Spain, where I checked out the Tapas culture, volunteered in trade for my accommodation by speaking English, visited the walled city of Toledo, stayed with a family near Madrid where I had an interesting encounter, and sampled the cuisine and grandeur of Segovia — another walled city with quite a spectacular aqueduct.

Dubai, a city known for its world - class hospitality industry and landmark hotels, is training its focus on mid-market hotels in a bid to attract a larger percentage of the millennial and family travel business.

Visitors are invited to bring family and friends to enjoy world class art exhibitions, public programs including screenings, readings and lectures, an open air courtyard with a full - service café, and one of the best bookstores in the city.

With one of, if not the most expensive tuition rates in the city ($ 39,750 + $ 2,000 mandatory fees + any extras) for a private school, Avenues (a for - profit venture) has become the area magnet for ultra-high-net-worth families who once called the now second - class neighbourhood of Tribeca home.