Sentences with phrase «more affluent areas»

Originally, the district said that some schools in more affluent areas of the city and most high schools would see their budgets shrink under the changes.

On average, though, they have not had access to the same educational opportunities as children from more affluent areas of the country.

The problem arises when the land bank does not benefit the city as a whole, focusing primarily on more affluent areas.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

High - need schools need more supports — like social workers, nurses, and arts programs — than schools in more affluent areas.

Moreover, the process for identifying «failing schools» was neither consistent nor research - based, and disproportionately affected low - income African American and Latino students by closing schools in disadvantaged minority neighborhoods while leaving untouched those schools in more affluent areas with comparable performance and enrollments.

Jeffrey Henig's essay considers charters expanding into more affluent areas.

The report showed these properties in the district were present in both communities such as Brentwood and Central Islip as well as more affluent areas such as Bayport, Bellport and West Sayville.

Its regional draw from more affluent areas also works in it favor, raises the average household income of the center itself to about $ 84,000.

Summer Matters» Khalilnaji - Otto noted that in California, especially in more affluent areas such as the Bay Area, summer camps may cost up to $ 500 per week.

Increased business rates for more affluent areas another.

The residencies of contender Mervyn Dymally and Wright were questioned because both of them owned homes in the district as well as in more affluent areas outside of the district.

This compared with 55 % of the poorest boys living in more affluent areas not going on to further academic study after GCSE.

Also, some libraries are staffed through funding by PTAs, and books are replenished by book fairs or school fundraisers, meaning that school libraries in more affluent areas now bear little resemblance to those in poorer neighborhood.

Such claims are an attempt to explain away the fact that charters like Success are out - performing district schools; in fact, Success ranked in the top one percent of all New York state schools in math and the top three percent in English, outperforming schools in far more affluent areas.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

We do have a several districts on the NSLP, and most of them, admittedly, are in more affluent areas with none more than 10 % of the students qualifying for free & reduced meals.

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

The reason given that too many people from more affluent areas and cities accessed therapy with Better Access and statements that there are so many psychiatrists in Mosman compared to rural areas surely don't tally as a reason to cut a very successful service that many people accessed.

For one, nearly all of the top schools were clustered in the downtown or South Los Angeles areas, while a majority of the top middle schools were located in more affluent areas of the Westside and the San Fernando Valley.

In 2010 children in more deprived areas engaged in more physical activity out of school than those in more affluent areas, but between 2006 and 2010 there was an overall reduction in physical activity out of school.

In the more affluent areas, indoor soccer is further buttressed by a unique recreational development.

The data stratified by both social class and Jarman showed that in more deprived areas, there was a strong effect of infant feeding in the lower and higher social classes, whereas in the more affluent areas, there was a much smaller effect of infant feeding, especially in the higher social classes.

Conversely, women (24 %), those aged 18 - 24 (27 %) and 55 + (27 %), and those living in Scotland's more affluent areas (23 %) are the least likely to vote «Yes».

Smaller gambling developments proposed in economically strapped areas should be able to compete with resort projects proposed by big - name companies in more affluent areas, the head of the state Gaming Commission said of the contest to win up to four casino licenses upstate.

The mayor said in more affluent areas, including his Park Slope, Brooklyn home, the system made more sense.

Combined with caps on housing benefit and significant hikes in social housing rents, poorer families could be chased out of more affluent areas.

«We knew that some of the more affluent areas in Erie County have quality coverage, but there are still many homes and businesses within our County relying on slow Internet speeds that simply can't meet 21st century technological requirements,» added Erie County Legislator Patrick B. Burke (7th District).

Politics: A reliable Labour seat - the working class areas are strongly Labour and the more affluent areas are just as much the trendy intelligentsia as suburban conservatives, splitting the non-Labour vote here between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Their asthma symptoms also were worse, and even among those with health insurance, their odds of ending up in the hospital emergency room choking from the bad air was triple that of youngsters in more affluent areas.

Contrastingly, figures are much higher in Rutland, a more affluent area, where 36 per cent of students have taken triple science as a GCSE choice.

Other analyses showed KIPP schools, and other high - poverty charter schools, narrowing the reading proficiency gap compared with schools in more affluent areas.

The research examined the incidence of inequality in education and found four per cent of teachers in the most deprived primary schools did not specialise in the subject they taught, compared to two per cent in more affluent areas.

Legislators from the more affluent areas in and around the state's cities tend to be white Republicans.

The others are «choice» schools located in more affluent areas or target students from more affluent families.

At this point, the movement of charters into more affluent areas is registered more by anecdote than evidence.

This first wave of Opportunity Areas has been backed by a significant # 72 million spending aimed at supporting local education providers and communities to address the challenges they face compared with more affluent areas.

In more affluent areas, they have their own architect and people, but not always, especially in safety and security areas.

Many grammar schools are sited in more affluent areas, but the BBC analysis suggests no clear correlation between their admission policies and the level of deprivation within a few miles of their location.

In the more affluent areas within Manhattan the percentage is much higher — about 1 in 2 children in families that live in either the Upper East Side or Upper West Side.

«Students in Holmes County do not have the same benefits as students in more affluent areas,» Meeks said.

«But Michael Gove's new Academies have been distorted to focus on schools which are already doing well and in more affluent areas.

«A good school serving a challenging area must have as much chance of a high score as a good school serving a more affluent area,» he said.

But the architects of the law understood that it was more than just the low - income children affected by low - income community schools because schools in poverty - ridden areas are «inherently unequal» when compared to schools in more affluent areas — the children in them are disadvantaged.

Research published last year suggests that highly qualified teachers shun challenging schools in favour of better performing schools in more affluent areas, exacerbating the learning gap.

The B&N near my house might survive longer then others because its at a popular shopping complex with many higher end stores in a more affluent area.

I would reckon that the more affluent areas are all move up buyers and not first timers, unlike inland which would likely have more first timers.

Although neglected building sites remain from recession - thwarted projects, the more affluent area of the Strip — from Mandalay Bay to the Wynn — has been burnished in recent years by upscale hotel additions such as the Aria and the Cosmopolitan.