Sentences with phrase «from affluent areas»

We know that children living in disadvantage do worse than those from affluent areas, not because the schools are poorer, but in fact because of a combination of a number of factors.
The CDC has case after case of infectious diseases being caught and transmitted in hospitals - from affluent areas down to the poorest hosptials.

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For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego — California's second largest city, and the tenth most affluent metro area in the nation, with a population of 3.2 million — would become Tribune's ninth metro market, and a new twist to C.E.O. Jack Griffin's clustering strategy.
From a recent article in The Bay Citizen I learned that about two dozen small, affluent public schools in the California Bay Area have opted out of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and instead have hired small catering companies (such as... [Continue reading]
It includes some thriving areas that have benefited from influxes of affluent residents out of the five boroughs.
Their asthma symptoms also were worse, and even among those with health insurance, their odds of ending up in the hospital emergency room choking from the bad air was triple that of youngsters in more affluent areas.
Particular areas of UK are particularly affluent; therefore, there are a lot of wealthy older men looking for companionship, chiefly from girls half their age.
The data shows that across Scotland's 32 councils, children in the least well - off areas are seven times less likely to get the grades needed for university compared to those from the most affluent areas.
Although set in an affluent area of Preston, a high proportion of Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College students come from the most deprived local areas, with 33 per cent on free school meals.
Nearly 59 per cent of pupils from the most disadvantaged areas missed their predicted grades, compared to around 48 per cent of students from the most affluent areas.
Legislators from the more affluent areas in and around the state's cities tend to be white Republicans.
Students receive preference within their geographic catchment areas, and students from affluent families are more likely to have the preparation needed for admissions to selective schools.
In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.
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».
You might recall from a post I released approximately 1.5 years ago a story about how a person who self - identifies as «Virginia SGP,» who is also now known as Brian Davison — a parent of two public school students in the affluent Loudoun, Virginia area (hereafter referred to as Virginia SGP), sued the state of Virginia in an attempt to force the release of teachers» student growth percentile (SGP) data for all teachers across the state.
Out sample did not include children from special needs schools and all were from a relatively affluent area, so the real figures may actually be higher.
And he points to research from the Sutton Trust showing how popular comprehensives in affluent areas have themselves become «socially exclusive», with «selection by house price».
But the school failed to draw students from the surrounding affluent area, instead attracting many from neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.
Although successive government reforms in the UK have driven up standards overall in the last 10 years, the gap between the attainment of children from poor and affluent homes has remained roughly the same, in some areas it has widened, and there is a long tail of underachievement.
April 27, 2016 • Jameria Miller moved from an affluent Philadelphia - area school district to one with fewer resources.
It is that authorities have turned their backs on low income areas because they know they won't get pushback like they will from more affluent areas, where they will be faced with lawyers and litigation and media exposure.
Most hotels in Napa and the surrounding area cater to the affluent, usually charging upwards of $ 300 per night; however, book early and you can find quaint rooms that are a bit of an upgrade from the «6».
Although neglected building sites remain from recession - thwarted projects, the more affluent area of the Strip — from Mandalay Bay to the Wynn — has been burnished in recent years by upscale hotel additions such as the Aria and the Cosmopolitan.
An affluent area, it extends roughly from Marylebone Road in the north to Oxford Street in the south, across to Edgware Road in the west and Great Portland Street in the east.
The Best Western Premier Accra Airport Hotel in Ghana is a newly - built four - star hotel located in one of Accra's most affluent areas 5 minutes from the Kotoka International Airport.
The hotel is located in Sandhurst Johannesburg, an affluent residential area located within 5 to 10 minutes from the business and shopping hub of Sandton.
Lucas's method of disturbing the day - to - day activities of the public is akin to the work of Artur Barrio, particularly the older artist's series from the 1970s Situação (Situation) in which he left bundles of bones, blood and excrement on street corners of affluent areas in an attempt to shock those encountering them out of their acceptance of the political status quo.
From 1977 to 1985, photographer Jim Goldberg worked with both impoverished and affluent residents of California's San Francisco Bay area to realize the series Rich and Poor.
The problem here is that for decades those affluent enough to live in nice areas away from environmental problems such as living near a power station, on inside heavily polluted inner - urban areas have simply done so, externalising the visual and environmental costs of their lifestyle on to people who are poorer than themselves.
Krebs opened an account at one such site called «rock3d.cc» and observed how the site tried to upsell fraudsters for services such as specific searches for card information from people living in a particularly affluent area of town.
Just because you live in an affluent area in Austin doesn't mean you are guaranteed protection from burglary.
The reason given that too many people from more affluent areas and cities accessed therapy with Better Access and statements that there are so many psychiatrists in Mosman compared to rural areas surely don't tally as a reason to cut a very successful service that many people accessed.
«I delivered checks to the wives of five victims — one woman from a very affluent area, the wife of the pilot whose plane went into Tower 2 and another working in a nursing home trying to make ends meet.
Developments insulated from the effects of the current downturn include grocery - anchored shopping centers in dense, affluent areas.
Becker: Our day - to - day info comes from our experience with 87 assets in highly urban areas with relatively affluent customers — a small microcosm.
Its regional draw from more affluent areas also works in it favor, raises the average household income of the center itself to about $ 84,000.
It's well located - adjacent to Newark International Airport and a short hop from midtown Manhattan in the midst of one of the most populous and affluent trade areas in the country.
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Affluent baby boomers from peripheral areas such as Forest Hill, Rosedale and Summerhill, are also making their way into the heart of the city.
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