Sentences with phrase «in middle class neighborhoods»

Frustrated by the fact that these students did not have the kind of network access that would be routinely available to middle class students in middle class neighborhoods, he ended up moving workstations around and stringing cable himself.

Basing teacher evaluations on student test growth, he added, voicing a widespread concern, is «absolutely absurd,» and «gives those teaching in middle class neighborhoods a huge, huge advantage.»

A strange thing I have noticed — Those who were never involved with their neighbors in a middle class neighborhood who moved to the worst / poorest neighborhood in the city usually end up with similar relationships in the new neighborhood.

I owned a house in a middle class neighborhood.

Imagine, for instance, a typical voter profile: in this case, imagine a young female independent who has voted in a given set of elections and lives in a middle class neighborhood.

I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The John's Hopkins School of Medicine, am Nationally Board Certified in mathematics, and teach math to mainly 7th grade students in a middle class neighborhood.

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They live in modest homes in average, middle - class neighborhoods.

In Panama City's central Parque Lefevre neighborhood, where many middle - class Panamanian professionals make their homes, a two - bedroom condo — with a balcony, a newly remodeled kitchen with granite countertops, and all appliances and window treatments included — is selling for just $ 122,000.

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

I recently saw a «for sale» in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Denver which advertised, «no money down, lender on site.»

Large Apartments — These buildings are the larger, nicer complexes you see all around the country, often times in upper - middle class neighborhoods in the suburbs.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

They live in modest homes in middle - class neighborhoods, not million - dollar mansions in upscale areas.

Company believes high standard of living should be accessible to everybody and specialize in stylish yet affordable spaces catered to young professionals and middle - class families in search of vibrant neighborhoods.

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

Apartment buildings, hotels, office and industrial centers and shopping centers as well as acres and acres of middle - class homes are emerging in sprawling neighborhoods.

In the traditionally middle - class black neighborhood of Chatham, for example, the decline in high - paying industrial jobs has important ramifications for Carter Temple (Christian Methodist Episcopal) and the other thriving African - American churcheIn the traditionally middle - class black neighborhood of Chatham, for example, the decline in high - paying industrial jobs has important ramifications for Carter Temple (Christian Methodist Episcopal) and the other thriving African - American churchein high - paying industrial jobs has important ramifications for Carter Temple (Christian Methodist Episcopal) and the other thriving African - American churches.

She told her listeners that she was middle - class and therefore could not afford to live in neighborhoods that have no Muslims, as the rich French do.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

«In white neighborhoods — middle - class, upper - class ones like this one — everybody has the pool in the back, the grill in the back,» he saiIn white neighborhoods — middle - class, upper - class ones like this one — everybody has the pool in the back, the grill in the back,» he saiin the back, the grill in the back,» he saiin the back,» he said.

Charlie Himmelstein was 19, lived in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, a nursery school teacher and college dropout, when he lost in the novice division of the New York Golden Gloves.

And it looks as if their scores will be truly impressive — almost indistinguishable from those of middle - class kids living in better neighborhoods.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

You know, kids enter kindergarten in Harlem behind their peers in middle - class and upper - middle - class neighborhoods in the city.

In my own neighborhood, which I would describe as middle class, there are quite a few kids whose parents go to work early and leave the it up to the kids to get themselves up, dressed, and onto the bus.

Although you stressed the problem in minority and economically stressed areas, you neglected to touch on the fact that a number of middle - class neighborhoods are still struggling to secure equitable park programs — most notably on the far Southwest Side of the city.

Many schools in middle to upper - middle class neighborhoods have high enough F&R eligibility that they have to participate in NSLP.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

We must close the loopholes identified in this report that cost our neighborhoods thousands of affordable homes each year and which threaten to turn New York into a city without a middle - class.»

Weiner, who once represented Brooklyn neighborhoods from Park Slope to Brownsville, pitches himself in the video as a native New Yorker who will fight for a declining middle class.

We were in a middle - class, mixed - ethnicity neighborhood, and if anyone Rivera talked to planned to vote for his opponent, they weren't telling him.

Organizers explained that Harlem had been chosen for the protest as it represents a neighborhood in flux, where soaring housing and commercial rents threaten to undermine the community's historic composition of working - class and middle - class life in New York.

RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.

As Michael Greenberg argues, building affordable middle - class housing in poor neighborhoods like East New York, South Williamsburg, and Crown Heights, leads to gentrification.

According to a press release his office sent out on Friday: «New York City tenants, housing advocates and clergy and community leaders [will be]... chanting slogans, waving placards and criticizing so - called advocacy groups as being out of touch with the needs of tenants in poor and middle class neighborhoods.»

In doing so, the Governor's TPU has helped to stem the loss of rent regulated housing in working and middle - class neighborhoods, ensuring that long - term tenants can stay in their homes,» said HCR Commissioner James S. RubiIn doing so, the Governor's TPU has helped to stem the loss of rent regulated housing in working and middle - class neighborhoods, ensuring that long - term tenants can stay in their homes,» said HCR Commissioner James S. Rubiin working and middle - class neighborhoods, ensuring that long - term tenants can stay in their homes,» said HCR Commissioner James S. Rubiin their homes,» said HCR Commissioner James S. Rubin.

John Bonizio, of the Westchester Square Merchants Association, called Bloomberg a «traitor,» adding, «His coming up to this middle class neighborhood to march in a parade for votes is disrespecting us, with what he's getting ready to do to this neighborhood.»

De Blasio is also trying to bring in voters in ethnically disparate middle - class neighborhoods like Rego Park and Jackson Heights and the north shore of Staten Island.

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The new analysis sheds light on how Airbnb listings, particularly in neighborhoods where they are most heavily concentrated, exacerbate New York City's affordability challenges and make it harder for working - and middle - class families to make ends meet... Airbnb listings were heavily concentrated in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn and had a greater impact on these neighborhoods.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Mr. Weiner cast himself as being in the vanguard for the middle class and as a native son of predominantly white neighborhoods outside Manhattan.

A friend of mine lives in a middle - class neighborhood of New Delhi, one of the richest cities in India.

I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, in a lower - middle - class suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of Columbus.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

In Mark Pellington's «Henry Poole Is Here,» Luke Wilson, as Henry, is first seen buying a house for himself in a middle - class neighborhood in L.A. suburbia, where he proceeds to stock up on vodka and Krispy Kreme doughnutIn Mark Pellington's «Henry Poole Is Here,» Luke Wilson, as Henry, is first seen buying a house for himself in a middle - class neighborhood in L.A. suburbia, where he proceeds to stock up on vodka and Krispy Kreme doughnutin a middle - class neighborhood in L.A. suburbia, where he proceeds to stock up on vodka and Krispy Kreme doughnutin L.A. suburbia, where he proceeds to stock up on vodka and Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

In 1913, Edith Graydon (Natasha Little) was a young woman living with her family — good - natured father (Michael Bertenshaw), emotionally distant mother (Imelda Staunton), and shy younger sister (Rachael Stirling)-- in a fading middle - class neighborhood in LondoIn 1913, Edith Graydon (Natasha Little) was a young woman living with her family — good - natured father (Michael Bertenshaw), emotionally distant mother (Imelda Staunton), and shy younger sister (Rachael Stirling)-- in a fading middle - class neighborhood in Londoin a fading middle - class neighborhood in Londoin London.

Lurching into a Christian charity shop managed by a devout middle - class woman, Hannah (Olivia Colman), he initially curses her for slumming in his impoverished neighborhood in the Northern city where they live.