Sentences with phrase «in affluent areas»

Schools in affluent areas with small numbers of pupils eligible for funding will also have very limited budgets to work with, which will limit the range of interventions that they can potentially use.

Under the new proposals, academies will be top - performing schools, many located in affluent areas.

This thread makes me think of nearly every parent I've encountered working as an educator in an affluent area.

The watchdog's own figures say 50 % of heads in affluent areas could not recruit enough good staff and that rose to 77 % in the «most challenging areas».

It does not seem like this is the explanation simply because schools in affluent areas have not been impacted by poverty, and their scores are also improving.

The business has two small locations in affluent areas of Toronto.

In 1978, California voters passed Proposition 13, which resulted in reduced funding for public schools, which accelerated the growth and popularity of private schools, especially in affluent areas such as the Peninsula and South Bay, which enjoyed the fruits of the Silicon Valley high - tech boom.

For instance, in Sydney there are a couple of stores located in affluent areas where if you get there on just the right day (and there is really no rhyme or reason to which day this is), you can find a great quality piece.

Although many people assume that students in an affluent area such as Parkland don't need scholarship assistance, Snow said, he wants to remind them that there is still a need.

Despite its location in an affluent area, the rating categorised the school as one of the worst primaries in the city.

Adam Pettitt, head of Highgate School, said: «Although Highgate School is situated in an affluent area of London, some of the least affluent and most challenged parts of the whole city are on our doorstep.

Distemper has become a rare disease in the USA in affluent areas because of vaccines against it are so effective.

That was the key finding in a recent Fortune article that pointed to the rise of mobile medical clinics in affluent areas like Silicon Valley.

Unlike a large urban district like my own, where close to 90 % of children qualify for free / reduced price lunch, in these affluent areas only a handful of children are economically disadvantaged.

3) Free and reduced eligibility is higher than people think, even in 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.

Four - in - ten children not «school ready» by time they start primary in some areas Some of biggest gaps between poorer and wealthier pupils in affluent areas School readiness gap explains 40 % of

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».

Broken down into different student subgroups, experts told lawmakers that studies found district size to be positively associated with performance in affluent areas, but negatively associated in poorer regions.

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».

Just because you live in an affluent area in Austin doesn't mean you are guaranteed protection from burglary.

Home owners looking for additional income are opening up their homes and renting out spare bedrooms to offset mortgage costs, which has made «homesharing» the latest trend catch on in some parts of the country, particularly in affluent areas.

Top - tier malls in affluent areas are driving improvements in vacancy rates and asking rents as smaller shopping centers continue to suffer from weakness in the economy, Severino said.

Polling indicated higher support for independence among male voters, voters under the age of 55 and voters from economically deprived areas, compared to higher support for the Union among female voters, voters over the age of 55 and voters living in affluent areas.

Another potential use for laddering involves just securing all of the insurance a family may need, especially in an affluent area where ten times total earning can mean the potential need for several million dollars of term life insurance.

Catholic schools say they're losing money under Gonski 2.0, but this is only true for schools serving students in affluent areas — those in poorer areas will either be unaffected, or get more.

This art deco property is situated in the affluent area of Mayfair with shopping, dining and some of London's top sights right at its doorstep.

I realize, of course, that there have always been sharp disparities between schools in affluent areas and poor areas — reflected in the quality of teachers, the availability of materials, the curricula, facilities and more.

Tamura's Fine Wine & Liquor stores are located in the affluent areas of Oahu and Maui.

«In affluent areas, or those where there are self - interested groups that want to take over, a voluntarist approach to providing services for one's fellow citizens might have more traction,» Yeowell adds.

I buy at really nice thrift store (we live in an affluent area) At season's end I donate my clothing back to charity or consign articles.

In affluent areas, 14 per cent of teachers said that a scientist was something the children aspired to be whereas this was only seven per cent in poorer areas.

Or so called public schools in affluent areas, like Bethesda, Maryland, where Rick and I both happen to live.

In its decision last month, the state Supreme Court didn't dispute the notion that Connecticut's educational landscape was tilted in favor of students in affluent areas.

They need to be able to adapt — to what it's like to be in an affluent area, and what it's like to be surrounded by poverty.

We know there is a positive correlation between property value and school quality, a correlation that penalizes families without the means to live in an affluent area.

The third believes most schools, and especially those in affluent areas, have never been better, but that schools in inner cities and rural areas sometimes underachieve because of poverty, segregation, and inequality.

Yglesias believes that schools in poor areas should receive funding above those in affluent areas because of the additional education challenges presented by poverty, with education taxes pooled statewide and distributed to where there is the most need.

About 49 % (415) of Chicago's schools remain zoned neighborhood schools, and most of these are elementary schools in affluent areas.

Pupils attending the 163 state - funded grammar schools in England are far less likely to have a statement of special educational needs (0.3 per cent compared with four per cent at other maintained schools) or English as an additional language, and more likely to live in affluent areas and be older in their year group.

What they do know is that those zoned schools in affluent areas have no room for them.

Of course, if you live in an affluent area, expect a 20 - 30 % bump in these prices, says Podgorska, who adds that if you like your sitter, throw in a tip, or give her a couple of movie tickets.

Families living in more deprived areas were more likely to start Triple P interventions, but those living in affluent areas were more likely to complete the course, the report suggests.

The property also is located in an affluent area.

Although the center was located in an affluent area, it didn't get a lot of drive - by traffic, according to Richard Walters, Faris Lee president.