Sentences with phrase «mostly affluent neighborhoods»

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While Nicoletti approached mostly familiar faces in the city's most affluent neighborhood, Perez Williams spent her time trying to turn out new voters.

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

But there's a problem: Once changes at a school are underway, how can they be stopped from turning the building into an affluent, white enclave — especially if the surrounding neighborhood becomes mostly affluent and white?

That's changed because more families (mostly white, virtually all of them affluent and well - educated) are living in west - of - the - park neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

For now, most TJ students come from a group of middle schools that serve neighborhoods that are mostly affluent and mostly white or Asian.