Sentences with phrase «more affluent suburb»

With many Braddock residents suffering from chronic illnesses due to their proximity to the steel plants (including Frazier herself who lives with lupus), Braddock Hospital became a de facto community that disappeared when the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) built a new hospital in a more affluent suburb.

The move away may either be to a more affluent suburb in the same urban area or to another city.

Traditionally, St. Paul has been the less favored twin — «Before I was elected mayor of St. Paul, my mother in Brooklyn thought the Twin Cities were Minneapolis and Indianapolis,» says Norm Coleman, who is now a U.S. senator — and there were doubts that the more affluent suburbs west of the Mississippi would cross the river to support the embryonic franchise.

[19] These universities have high tuition rates, campuses in the more affluent suburbs of Santiago, and larger shares of students from wealthier families.

Not exact matches

The town of Port Lincoln boasts more millionaires per capita than even the affluent eastern suburbs of Sydney, the heartland of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's local electorate.

Last year, state lawmakers voted to fund every district more equally, whether it's in an affluent suburb or a high - poverty community.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more - affluent student population.

Last year, state lawmakers voted to fund every district more equally, whether it's in an affluent suburb or a high - poverty community.

More important than standardized test scores, the quality of the education that students who are educated with a Common Core curriculum have is vastly inferior to the education that other students in affluent suburbs and independent, private schools have.

Cities in New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania generally feel the worst financial squeeze, according to the Education Law Center's school funding fairness report, because their local funding sources favor wealthier school districts over needier areas — and because they sometimes spend more money than necessary in affluent suburbs.

The more affluent «suburbs» have open ground and ponds and nice trees and landscapes so bird - land can thrive.

At the same time, Americans are more likely to live in the suburbs today than they were in 2000, and even the young, affluent ones drawn to cities tend to move once their kids reach school age, Kolko's research shows.