Sentences with phrase «from wealthy communities»

Housing counselors say a growing number of homeowners from wealthy communities, like Laguna Beach, Calif., are seeking to modify loans on multimillion - dollar properties.

The elimination of the SALT deduction would create enormous pressure for additional tax relief from wealthier communities and shrink the revenue available for their own schools via property taxes and for less wealthy communities via state aid packages.

Since 2008, our students have achieved at the highest levels among public middle school students in Massachusetts, including when compared to students from wealthier communities.

Not exact matches

He said the C of E has become so disconnected from deprived communities that its mission approach is «entirely focused on the needs and aspirations of the wealthy».

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

• Gary R. Roberts, Tulane law professor, in USA Today: «Player - owner disputes are simply quarrels about how a huge pot of money extracted from fans and communities will be divided by two extremely wealthy groups.»

No matter the demographics of the community — low - income or wealthy, private or public school, ethnically diverse or homogenous — there simply isn't a consensus of what parents want from school lunch.

There are the growth advocates, including many people from less - wealthy communities, who desire the revenue and growth that tend to accompany the building of a major thoroughfare.

«How can the residents of our communities trust an individual who claims he is working for them when he is, in fact, taking money from Republicans whose main focus is protecting the wealthy on the backs of New York's struggling working families?

Greenfield has to defend his seat this fall, and, according to City Hall news, might have a fight on his hands from Yussi Rieder, a wealthy community activist.

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

«This type of trickle - down development, which OCIDA continues to support time and time again, does not benefit our citizens and instead takes money away from the poorest people in our community to further enrich wealthy developers,» she said in a statement.

As an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban community.

«A lot of times the need to fundraise large amounts of money prevents a lot of people who are qualified and who are leaders in that community from running for office because they don't have networks that include wealthy donors,» said Allie Boldt, a Washington, D.C. - based counsel for the think tank Demos.

He has such fond memories of Mount Vernon, yet he chose to run away from the city, and currently resides in Rye, a «wealthy, mostly white» community which refuses to accept any form of «affordable housing» and is one of such communities in Westchester County which dumps all of «the problems» into Mount Vernon.

«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.

He is the only Democrat who will break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» de Blasio's campaign manager said in a statement.

In recent years, popularity with wealthy home buyers from outside these communities has shaken local economies.

Sophocles, the son of Sophilus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for Oscar Zach is a red piller who detests white knights / manginas, whom he believes to be the actual source from where feminism draws its power to subvert men

June 26, 2012 • A growing number of those seeking help from mortgage counselors are high - income owners of million - dollar homes in wealthy communities like Laguna Beach, Calif., and Westchester County, N.Y..

Educators began to see that the education of a child in a wealthier community in New York could vary greatly from that of a student in the Midwest or that of a black child in the South.

This isn't to say they never yield to entreaties from alums, wealthy benefactors, trustees, key faculty members, and influential community leaders; they can do so because they don't have to follow the norms of public servants.

Children from wealthier, better - educated families also tend to live in communities where property - tax revenues and school budgets are high.

Our current school funding system often bolsters school district boundaries between rich and poor, holding resources in wealthy communities and keeping low - income students from accessing broader opportunities.

The opt - outers during last year's media frenzy, he says, were from wealthier families in wealthier communities and wielded more influence than their poll numbers suggest.

«Parents from low - income communities should be treated with as much respect as parents in wealthier neighborhoods.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

FEA Launched - The Fair Education Alliance, a coalition for change in education comprising 27 of the UK's leading organisations including Teach First, launches with the goal of ending the achievement gap between young people from our poorest communities and their wealthier peers.

The $ 11 million spent on I - 1240 came almost entirely from a cadre of wealthy education reformers, most from the tech community, headed by Microsoft's Bill Gates.

Great Neck, Long Island, is a wealthy community with high - scoring students, and both Carolyn Abbott and Sheri Lederman had support from the administrators, parents, and students with whom they worked.

The first column, FRPM 0 - 33 %, represents schools in wealthier communities; the far right column, FRPM > 89 %, represents high - poverty schools; and the middle column represents schools that are closer to the state average on the indicator, ranging from one standard deviation above to one standard deviation below the mean.

Children from low income and underserved communities do not have access to the quality of educational resources enjoyed by peers in wealthier communities.

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

In the case of Pine Lake, the money comes from wealthier households or private foundations, which begs questions about whether the model can work in every community and whether it can ever be independent from the exclusive desires of the rich.

Malloy's proposal does little more than redirect a relatively small amount of existing funds from wealthier and middle income towns to Connecticut's poorest communities.

Previous research from Teach First has shown that the poorest communities are half as likely to be served by an outstanding secondary school compared to the wealthiest.2

Their boards are comprised largely of wealthy entrepreneurs and hedge fund managers from outside of the school's community rather than comprised of parents and citizens of the community?

In another Albany chamber that same morning, a court prepared to hear the opening argument in a long - running education finance case, Maisto v. New York, that contends students from poorer communities are getting much less in per pupil spending — several thousands less — than their wealthier peers.

From bake sales to gala auctions, private groups are raising an increasing amount of money for public schools in wealthier communities, highlighting concerns about inequality.

That has not stopped wealthy donors and their political allies from pushing unaccountable charter growth in urban centers while stripping communities of a voice in their children's education.

While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

[54] While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

The model of the hermetic artist - genius in the studio who lives off a stipend from a wealthy commercial gallery and has a museum retrospective by the time she is thirty - five has been replaced by the model of artist as creative opportunity - maker and community - builder.

In 2008, five million cubic yards of coal ash, a toxic by - product of burning coal, spilled from the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee into the surrounding wealthy community.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

This dark vision implies the increasing insulation of the world's wealthy minority from the rest of humanity — buying protection for their fortressed communities from the Halliburtons, Bechtels and Blackwaters of the world while the majority of the poor are left to scramble for survival among the ruins.

Via Mizner will reshape Boca Raton's future, transforming it from an enclave of wealthy gated communities into a vibrant travel destination for millennials and a home for young professionals.

The 1920s waterfront estate is located just 25 miles from New York City in the wealthy community of Kings Point, Long Island — thought to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for the town of West Egg.