Sentences with phrase «neighborhood income segregation»

She said the increased neighborhood income segregation that her study uncovered is a troubling sign for low - income families.

She found that, among families with children, neighborhood income segregation is driven by increased income inequality in combination with a previously overlooked factor: school district options.

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The commission would also look into the segregation in New York cities by housing costs, which he said leads to underperforming schools in low - income neighborhoods.

A recent report finds Syracuse and Onondaga County suffer from «hyper - segregation,» where minorities are mostly confined to a few, low - income neighborhoods.

The suit claimed also that the «outsider restriction policy» effectively is «entrenched segregation» that makes it hard for low income New Yorkers to move to neighborhoods with high quality schools, green space and better jobs.

I'm talking about high quality housing that's mixed income - which will help reduce segregation - that's humanly scaled on scattered sites, not concentrated in high - rises, is built in the suburbs as well as the cities, in all neighborhoods in the cities, and is green.»

Income segregation between neighborhoods rose 20 percent from 1990 to 2010, and income segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those wiIncome segregation between neighborhoods rose 20 percent from 1990 to 2010, and income segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those wiincome segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those without.

However, if the concentration of minority or low - income students in a school results from the purposeful choices of parents rather than from neighborhood segregation, the adverse effects may be fewer.

Consider just one countervailing factor: the significant rise in segregation by income between neighborhoods over the past four decades.

«This is what we are talking about when we look at interaction between race and neighborhood — it's something not explained by income but explained by the segregation of neighborhoods,» he said, adding that the problem is so tenacious that it affects generation after generation of African Americans.

Charters, by severing the tie between residential neighborhood segregation and school segregation, might help reinvent the old idea of the American common school, where students of different races, incomes, and religions could come and learn together under a single schoolhouse roof.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.