Sentences with phrase «class neighborhoods leaving»
There I was, a guy who owned a house back in 1990 in St. Louis, and Southwestern Bell had just moved its headquarters to Texas so there were a lot of people in the middle - to upper - class neighborhoods leaving the city.
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After my wife came home from work we walked through our neighborhood before leaving for our evening class.
In my own neighborhood, which I would describe as middle class, there are quite a few kids whose parents go to work early and leave the it up to the kids to get themselves up, dressed, and onto the bus.
The Fleetwood - Jourdain Community Center in Evanston, located in a predominantly black, working - class neighborhood, offers karate, a special coed leadership program for teens, a class that studies plants and leaves, and a full roster of sports.
The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.
Left - wing policy supports neighborhood - based public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or schools, and argues instead for alternatives to school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty schools.
Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.
When my two boys attended our neighborhood public school, I witnessed the dire results of budget cuts — programs like art, music, and electives were cut, class sizes increased, and teachers began leaving the profession.