Sentences with phrase «in wealthy communities»

This is an issue that could be addressed at a federal level as well: if the government can fund «flood insurance» that in so many instances subsidizes homeowners in wealthy communities who insist on building and living in places that are dangerous and inappropriate, why can't we establish something similar for low income families who want to take animals into their lives?

On the 74, Richard Whitmire wonders why parents and teachers in wealthy communities like Newton, Massachusetts, are so actively fighting a ballot initiative that would allow more charter schools to open in other areas in the state.

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.

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..

Turner, who held a news conference at the Larchmont MetroNorth station this morning, tied Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to the ongoing effort to require affordable housing in wealthy communities.

The protest was in response to a 2009 settlement reached between Westchester County and the federal government, requiring the county to build 750 units of affordable housing in wealthy communities.

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.

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.

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.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

But because this money is awarded on a first - come, first - served basis to districts with approved projects and matching funds, critics say, it provides an unfair advantage to LEAs in wealthier communities or with dedicated facilities staff who are able to navigate the system.

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.

Schools with more students qualifying for free and reduced price meals, a proxy for poverty, have higher African - American suspension rates than schools in wealthier communities.

Whenever I see a great school, whether in the wealthiest community or the poorest, it always includes a principal with a strong, clear vision and a plan for how to execute that vision.

Choices many teachers in wealthier communities take for granted are just not afforded in this school.

Advocates will make the claim that charters and voucher programs offer poor students of color the same opportunities for access and success that students in wealthier communities enjoy.

Some of those children live in towns with high concentrations of poverty, and some are at - risk kids residing in wealthier communities, he said.

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.

Still today, students going to school in many large cities, some smaller ones, and in numerous rural communities do not have access to the kinds of learning environments, high - speed Internet access, and learning platforms that students in wealthier communities take for granted.

For a select but growing group of schools in wealthier communities, parent fundraising has risen to new heights.

Finally, we should make sure that the public resources in these schools and communities are comparable to those in wealthier communities.

Although common thought among some parents is that independent charter schools are located in wealthier communities, the statistics show that more than half of the 224 independent charters are located in the poorest school board districts of Los Angeles.

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.

Not exact matches

This neighbourhood is in the historical Rothesay, which developed as a summer home community for Saint John's wealthy elite.

Wealthy Argentines live in opulent apartment buildings or in gated communities, wear designer clothes, and drink espresso out of tiny cups.

But it's fascinating to see how steeply values have risen in some communities, making many homeowners wealthy in the process.

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Regional financial institutions like Bank of the West, or BB&T in the Southeastern US, are expanding their private - banking operations, leveraging prior lending relationships with the emerging wealthy and a reviving desire to support local communities.

When assigning hurricane relief funds to communities across the country, the oversight board's austerity policies may also privilege wealthier at the expense of the most vulnerable, argues Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, also at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, who published an op - ed in the Huffington Post.

Not only are those sensible ways of living but they're also things that create community, interdependence, the sort of life that we're made for together — and break the patterns of unsustainability and also land us in a place where we're the wealthiest country in the world and also one of the most lonely, medicated and depressed people in the world.

Rather than hunkering down in wealthy, gated Chinese communities, they engage.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

According to the Church of Scotland, Lochside is among the 40 poorest communities in the country while at the same time the St Columba's parish as a whole is among the wealthiest.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

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.

However, we can say with some confidence that central government schemes aimed at social justice tend to undermine community, retard economic growth, and exacerbate the differences between the poor and the wealthy in this country just as they did in South America.

• 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.»

Soccer Academy Reaches Across Border to Nurture Young Players - The New York Times On a stormy Saturday, a group of young boys wearing red soccer uniforms and cleats in a dizzying array of colors clip - clopped out of the rain and into an old warehouse, where wealthy residents of this historic community along Raritan Bay once stored their antique cars.

«We're not rich on money, and we are not rich on a lot of things, but we are wealthy beyond wealthy in community spirit,» Clemons said.

Schools in low - income communities have less money than schools in wealthier ones.

We get it that waiting for the feds to step in and do the right thing may mean never seeing it happen, but on the other hand, even if some communities can afford to pay for the study and pass the bond, I know for sure this is not true everywhere, and I worry about what happens to the poorer parts of America when the wealthier communities take a «I've got mine, now let everyone else go get theirs» attitude.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

«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?

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.

«Every leader in this state should be shouting about what Cuomo and his trustees did to LICH, how the community was railroaded, almost 2,000 New Yorkers were put out of work, and a vital medical facility was shut down to benefit wealthy real estate developers and other friends of the Governor,» said Julie Semente, long - time LICH nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association's executive committee at LICH, speaking on her own behalf.

The plan calls for the creation of low - equity housing cooperatives, reinvesting in NYCHA housing, developing community land trusts, creating tax abatements for developers and entrepreneurs who bring business into Central Brooklyn and hire local residents must be encouraged to hire locally, offering quality careers to residents and a moratorium on wealthy developers being allowed to buy up apartment buildings and leave the units vacant.

«And I'm here to help uplift the voices of other people in this state and city that believe that he might not know about other communities of color because he lives very isolated up here in a very wealthy community,» said one person at the rally.

«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.