Sentences with phrase «from affluent neighborhoods»

Poor children are not given the same high - quality education that children from affluent neighborhoods are given, and certainly not ever without a struggle from parents.

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We are lucky enough to come from a very affluent neighborhood.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

The surprise is that Clinton, which routinely smacks down affluent schools in these competitions, is not full of college - bound kids from fancy neighborhoods; it is full of everyday kids whose parents work in blue - collar jobs.

But there's a problem: Once changes at a school are underway, how can they be stopped from turning the building into an affluent, white enclave — especially if the surrounding neighborhood becomes mostly affluent and white?

If a school is near a border that separates an affluent neighborhood and a poor one, its boundaries could be drawn to ensure enrollment from both communities.

That school's going to get better and better, and people from the city, even people in affluent neighborhoods like where I live, are going to look at that and say, «I want a school like that.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

In contrast to the affluent towns on the west side of the park, only 40 percent of adults in this neighborhood graduated from high school.

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

This spring, the school in affluent Tarzana began using a lottery for applicants from outside the neighborhood.

Many Democrats see portability as the first step toward federal vouchers for private schools and argue that it would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty and profound needs to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

It is so successful that even affluent Montgomery County, which usually resists departures from its highly rated public school programs, is trying to get KIPP to put a school in one of its low - income neighborhoods.

Many Democrats argue that it is a first step toward private - school vouchers and would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

That feedback persuaded the chancellor to remove five schools from her original closure list, including Garrison Elementary and Francis - Stevens Education Campus, two Northwest Washington schools in relatively affluent neighborhoods.

This is no small feat and even more surprising that the first student to do this in Indiana's history is from Gary, Indiana, not the more affluent neighborhoods of Zionsville, Carmel, Fishers and others in the state.

But the school failed to draw students from the surrounding affluent area, instead attracting many from neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

For now, most TJ students come from a group of middle schools that serve neighborhoods that are mostly affluent and mostly white or Asian.

One of the reasons Finland has consistently stayed at the top of international rankings in education is because it focuses on equity; poorer schools receive more funding than those in more affluent neighborhoods, according to Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland author Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

Some investors think about investment homes along a continuum similar to bonds, ranging from AAA (lower return, lower risk, more affluent neighborhoods) to junk bonds (higher return, higher risk, less affluent neighborhoods).

Located just a short drive from Waikiki, KAHALA MALL is near Honolulu's affluent Kahala neighborhood and beach.

Originally, this was a small project space, relying upon a network of public institutions to generate selections for its program, but after a few years it evolved into a gallery in the hands of its two founders, the Australian curator and musician Dominic Eichler and the Austrian artist Michel Ziegler; eventually, it transitioned from its humble beginnings to the city's most affluent neighborhood, Charlottenburg — a counterintuitive move, but one the directors insist won't change its commitment to cutting - edge exhibitions, performances, screenings, talks, and social evenings.

Extreme heat also brings greater risk of death from dehydration, heat stroke, heart attack, and other heat - related illnesses, particularly for less affluent neighborhoods that may lack shade trees and access to air conditioning.

Sited near some of Dallas» most affluent neighborhoods, Knox spans 14 square blocks just across from the Katy Trail.