Sentences with phrase «for wealthy parents»

By, once again, proposing to slash funding for teachers and after - school programs, Trump is effectively recommending that Congress cut teachers» salaries, increase class sizes, and cancel after - school programming to pay for tax cuts for wealthy parents who can already afford to send their kids to private schools.

Critics warn that a well - intentioned funding system has become a way for wealthy parents to avoid schools with low - income students.

The elimination of these deductions, along with new incentives for wealthier parents to consider private schools, could be detrimental to the public schooling system as it could trigger the flight of wealth and upper - middle class families.

Not exact matches

While the age increase was implemented to curb asset shifting by the wealthy, it has the unintended consequence of penalizing teenagers who work and save their money and parents who save for college using custodial accounts in their children's names.

It baffles me that they would worry about political backlash for reducing or removing this private school funding from wealthy parents groups that I'm positive have never voted NDP nor would they in the future.

All three interlocutors attested that they had been raised by pious parents to respect the wealthy and to emulate «those who've made something of themselves through hard work» for the sakes of their «families and investors.»

We were not wealthy, and insofar as my parents held much of what passed for advanced ideas in those days, they believed in that vague kind of middle - American progressivism that expressed itself in Scandinavian furniture, subscriptions to the New Yorker, and «educational playthings.»

The same can be said about someone like Andrew Luck who, because of wealthy parents, was able to stick around Stanford for another year and get his degree instead of jumping into the NFL.

For the last four years word has passed in prizefighting that another such figure has entered the business — an immensely wealthy woman in Houston who has adored the prize ring from the moment her parents took a glamorous three - day train ride to New York in June 1938 and she saw Joe Louis knock out Max Schmeling in the first round.

Manila, 4th August, 2011 — During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

And I actually suspect that the money available to schools for food may be much higher, given this post by Karen Le Billon which indicates that parents are assessed a price on a sliding scale, with the wealthiest parents paying a whopping $ 7 per meal.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

To complement her considerable political muscle, Sturgeon enjoys the unquestioning adoration of a substantial number of Scots: hundreds (thousands, if the venue can accommodate) turn out to hear her speak; parents proffer their children for kisses from the Sturgeon lips; should you wish to spend an afternoon drinking cider by the canal, you can do so in a Nicola branded hoodie, part of a range of garments bearing the First Minister's name and providing year another stream of income for the wealthy SNP.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

Funded to focus on PANS by two wealthy parents whose child was diagnosed with the disease, Agalliu began searching in 2012 for controls to the trap door that autoantibodies use to sneak into the brain.

The report also recommends reorganising student funding to form a more coherent system across further and higher education, increasing loan entitlements to students living away from home from # 3635 to # 4100, and redistributing funding to increase access opportunities for the least well off, whilst requiring the wealthiest parents to fully support their children.

The foster parents were wealthy friends of someone I knew, and we had not gone through a traditional route for finding the home.

What I initially thought was a matchmaking service to facilitate arranged marriages for Indian parents and their single children turns out to be the world's largest dating website for wealthy benefactors, also known as sugar daddies who are in search of «mutually beneficial relationships» with attractive beneficiaries.

She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons).

The Nanny Diaries (PG - 13 for profanity) Sacrlett Johansson handles the title role in this romantic comedy, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, about a college grad nanny for a wealthy Manhattan family who finds herself having to put up with the parents» (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti) dysfunction and the demands of their precocious son (Nicholas Art) until hope arrives in a relationship with a well - heeled, handsome Harvard alumnus (Chris Evans) from Park Avenue.

But the movie can't risk offending anyone too much, so the thornier parts of the story are abandoned for cartoonish villains (wealthy parents, bigoted torch - wielding protesters) and a caricatured plot.

Florence's parents were wealthy, overbearing snobs who never thought her choice of a husband was good enough for their daughter («Is he one of us?»

Here's a trailer for The Longest Week, starring Jason Bateman as a wealthy, aimless heir named Conrad Valmont who is forced to move in with his equally wealthy best friend Dylan (Billy Crudup) after his parents cut him off.

Not only will this help fill the shortfall in places across England, but these schools will also raise standards and provide a new choice for parents in areas where deprivation and low standards have meant no real choice except for the wealthy.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

Four are clustered in wealthy Bergen County, where parents have the resources to be particularly proactive and litigious in acquiring placements for their children.

Nearly two decades ago, a landmark study found that by age 3, the children of wealthier professionals have heard words millions more times than those of less educated parents, giving them a distinct advantage in school and suggesting the need for increased investment in prekindergarten programs.

The school offers all - day kindergarten for free, while schools in wealthier parts of town charge fees to parents who want more than a half - day program.

For too long, I've seen and heard how wealthy parents in New York City can pick and choose where to send their children to school.

It is a situation that fuels a cycle in which parents who can afford high - priced properties flood to those wealthier areas, and the neighborhood schools receive greater funding for programs, supports, and services.

Because parents will stop at nothing to get lawmakers to understand the right to a great school isn't just for the privileged wealthy.

Many parents will pay for private tutors in an attempt to help their children pass entrance exams for selective schools, but does this give pupils from wealthy families an unfair advantage?

While time for dance and music is offered, current and former parents say the schools skimp on social studies, science, the visual arts and the kind of creative, sensory activities that fill the days at high - performing schools in wealthier neighborhoods.

«For the first time in American history, poor families are having the same conversation wealthy parents have been having, and it's starting with, «Hey, where are you sending your child next year?

Despite the disproportionate concentration of PTA donations in affluent schools, we found that few of the districts with the 50 richest PTAs have policies in place to respond to outsized donations to the wealthiest schools.30 A couple of districts place restrictions on how parent - raised funds can be spent, such as banning their use to pay for school staff.

School leaders in affluent areas are able to call on support from wealthier parents to provide funding for better facilities, unlike leaders in less advantaged schools, where «parents aren't in a position to help financially».

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

«The same schools that parents can choose are the same schools that wealthier North Carolina families have been choosing for generations.

Part of the answer might be that in such communities, students and parents from wealthier families are constantly competing for ever more academic success.

Specifically, Democrats resent her support for allowing tax dollars to follow children to schools their low - income parents» choose — although wealthy families choose their children's schools every day.

This can happen for various reasons: because wealthy parents unduly influence budget allocations, for example.

But this latest admissions proposal may prove controversial if wealthier parents struggle to get school places for their children.

Now if you're a middle - income or wealthy, White parent with a neurotypical, non-disabled student in the public education system, there's probably no reason for you to care about school accountability.

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

«We are worried that increased competition for school places will further exacerbate the social segregation in schools, with wealthier parents able to buy properties closest to favoured schools and children from poorer families being squeezed out and concentrated in the less popular schools.

introduced an amendment that would allow parents to use a special tax - free college savings account to pay tuition for private K - 12 schools, a provision that would largely benefit wealthier families who can already afford private schools.

To paraphrase just a little, Dewey said: «What the best and wisest (among the wealthiest) parents want for their children, that must we want for all the children of the community.

As, the philosopher John Dewey once admonished, «what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that the community must want for all its children» — not just its white and wealthy ones.

For a select but growing group of schools in wealthier communities, parent fundraising has risen to new heights.

The article shames them for doing what every white and wealthy parent in America does — selecting the best educational situation for their babies,» said Vesia Wilson - Hawkins, a Nashville, TN parent and activist.