Sentences with phrase «more affluent neighborhoods»

Particularly during the early stages, bike share is often concentrated in more affluent neighborhoods within a city, such as central business districts.

Those living in more affluent neighborhoods outside the city have another advantage.

As a general rule, fines tend to be higher in more affluent neighborhoods and cheaper in poorer ones.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

Research has shown that minority students attending inner - city campuses are more likely to be held back a grade than their white peers at more affluent neighborhood schools.

«But as we address the important issue on how to shut [Rikers] down, we also need to use the opportunity to address another stigma — one that resonates in lower - income communities, mostly of color, who for far too long have taken on more than their fair share of the types of facilities more affluent neighborhoods have refused to accept,» Salamanca stated.

Whiter and more affluent neighborhoods like Riverdale, the Upper East Side, Forest Hills and eastern Queens also favored centrist rivals like Ms. Quinn in the Democratic primary.

The scientists found that individual houses without significant plant coverage in the yard could still support high arthropod diversity when located within more affluent neighborhoods.

Poorer neighborhoods (defined by residents receiving public housing assistance) were associated with lower likelihood for taking the test, while more affluent neighborhoods (defined by residents with college degrees) were linked to higher odds of taking the test.

As Success expands into more affluent neighborhoods, will upper - income parents support its program?

When school district budgets are cut, parents in more affluent neighborhoods essentially tax themselves to provide librarians, after - school programs, field trips and other needs.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

Children — nearly three - quarters were black — who moved into and attended schools in more affluent neighborhoods outperformed comparable children who attended schools with higher proportions of low - income students (Schwartz, 2010).

Consistent with this notion, an experimental study revealed that youths» violent delinquent behavior was reduced by relocating their families to more affluent neighborhoods [29].

Poor whites tend to live in more affluent neighborhoods than do middle - class blacks and Latinos, a situation that leaves those minorities more likely to contend with weaker schools, higher crime and greater social problems, according to a new study.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

Of course the more affluent neighborhoods are spared.

Quite a bit in some of the more affluent neighborhoods of Queens around Forest Hills.

Thompson enjoyed tremendous support in poorer areas such as Wakefield and University Heights, while Bloomberg won in the more affluent neighborhoods of the Bronx, including Riverdale and Morris Park.

Some residents in the surrounding area are now going to have to get flood insurance while properties in the more affluent neighborhood of Meadowbrook were taken off the maps.

«We continue to bear an unfair burden that more affluent neighborhoods would never have to worry about.

The more affluent the neighborhood, the more water the residents were likely to use.

I've also noticed these stores are more likely to be located in more affluent neighborhoods (a marketing ploy I'm sure!!..

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

Many Democrats see portability as the first step toward federal vouchers for private schools and argue that it would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty and profound needs to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

Ward 3, encompassing some of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, has nearly a quarter of the best teachers, but only 8 percent of the worst.

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

Ward 3, encompassing some of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, has nearly a quarter of the best teachers, but only eight percent of the worst.

This is no small feat and even more surprising that the first student to do this in Indiana's history is from Gary, Indiana, not the more affluent neighborhoods of Zionsville, Carmel, Fishers and others in the state.

As the report says: «One has a better chance of attending a distinguished school in grades 6 - 12 if one is willing to leave Denver's more affluent neighborhoods.»

Our current system of school districting often punishes economically disadvantaged families because, if they can not afford to move to a more affluent neighborhood, their children can be stuck in underperforming or failing schools.

One of the reasons Finland has consistently stayed at the top of international rankings in education is because it focuses on equity; poorer schools receive more funding than those in more affluent neighborhoods, according to Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland author Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ensuring that children in poor neighborhoods have the same learning opportunities that children in more affluent neighborhoods have is a pillar of Whole Child Education, explains NEA President Lily Eskelsen García.

As a general rule, homes in less expensive neighborhoods offer the highest current yield potential, but generally come with more volatility, or risk, than more affluent neighborhoods.

Some investors think about investment homes along a continuum similar to bonds, ranging from AAA (lower return, lower risk, more affluent neighborhoods) to junk bonds (higher return, higher risk, less affluent neighborhoods).

For example, homes in less expensive neighborhoods typically offer the highest current yield potential, but generally come with more volatility, or risk, than more affluent neighborhoods.

The bottom line was that there had to be a transfer station somewhere, and if it wasn't to remain in this more affluent neighborhood, it would be sited in a less affluent one, one less capable of making its case.

In an experiment that started in the 1990s, the federal government offered thousands of low - income women living in public housing in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Boston an opportunity to move to a more affluent neighborhood and see if it improved their health.