Sentences with phrase «of suburban»

In addition, city school libraries receive one - third the new book funding of suburban libraries.

Meantime, as a new school year begins for students in the Rochester area, it's the first time in years that a handful of suburban students will be attending classes in the city.

Take, for instance, the case of the suburban Boynton Beach parents who have been pushing to build a charter school in their community, said Lynn Norman - Teck, director of communications for the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools.

But the supporters of Suburban Project Concern, which is well regarded because student and community participation is voluntary, say the board's decision made at the start of the school year was based not only on economic problems but on political pressure from the teachers» union.

In this case, 70 % of Urban students, 73 % of Suburban students, and 65 % of Rural students enrolled in college.

Following the lead of a suburban school that has a track record of moving low - performing students forward, he introduced an approach called the «three - legged stool.»

There is a disconnect between the urban school experience and that of the suburban school, which has become the all - too - common setting for mass murder.

Associate Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo has been awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a study of the dynamics of suburban American communities that are experiencing racial change.

Among the most important factors influencing parents» decision to send children to the suburban system were the promise of the suburban academic program (68 % of surveyed parents) and preparation of their children for college (65 % of surveyed parents).

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

It's a good point, and highlights the problems with a reform strategy that is dismissive of suburban concerns and proudly unconcerned with how preferred policy solutions (accountability, teacher evaluation) play out in upper - income precincts.

Between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of suburban charters actually fell from 25 to 21 percent of the total.

An alliance of suburban Republicans and a handful of Democrats was not enough to pass the legislation.

«Many of the schools here in Arlington are bursting at the seams,» said Nathan Zee of the suburban community just outside the nation's capital where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

The Court found that extending the busing remedy beyond the Detroit system would undermine the autonomy of the suburban school districts.

Thus an instructor in the toughest downtown high school gets paid the same as one teaching in the most serene of suburban - like elementary schools.

The data also shows that Latinos, the nation's largest minority, have become increasingly isolated for the last 30 years, with segregation surpassing that of blacks, and the rapid growth of suburban minorities has not produced integrated schools.

For those of us who do this work because of our deep concern for the way the deck is stacked against the «have nots,» we probably should start getting used to the idea that winning the hearts and minds of suburban soccer moms and dads is going to be the best way to win the political fight once and for all.

Furthermore, Columbine was a bastion of suburban privilege; it challenged stereotypes about inner - city violence.

The superintendent's plan, they contend, represents an attempt to reduce the mandatory busing of suburban white students at the expense of blacks.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

Theo's hopes are further heightened when a freak accident supercharges him with speed beyond his small stature, fuelling a path out of his suburban safety and into the open arms of sweet, spirited taco seller Tito (Michael Peña, Gangster Squad).

With its disturbing story of a suburban pedophile (beautifully played by Baker), Happiness was one of the most controversial American movies of 1998 but also one of the most highly regarded; it's hard to imagine many of the original players balking at the chance to appear in a sequel.

For a moment, the movie taps into the playful sense of suburban ennui that...

In the end, the critically - fancied adaptation of Richard Yates's novel of suburban disaffection in 50s America, which was directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, secured three nominations, including a best supporting actor nod for Michael Shannon.

«In the initial draft, Julie's character was described as mildly controlling and neurotic,» Winer says of the suburban sitcom mom.

News reports tell of suburban (read: «white») youngsters being exposed to rap about crime and drugs.

Andrew Pulver applauds Sam Mendes» adaptation of Richard Yates» novel of suburban disaffection, which reunites Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

Tom Hanks stars as the quintessential middle - class husband and father who has a growing suspicion of his unusual neighbours, and, egged on by the mob mentality of other members of the suburban cul - de-sac, ignites chaos and destruction.

Ideally, major artists avoid or subvert trends instead of following them, and there's nothing in Ratcatcher's poetic, child's - eye view of a suburban garbage strike or Morvern Callar's deft, intimate, portrait of a young woman coping with her boyfriend's suicide to hint that its creator's output would come to even superficially resemble the oil - slick schtick of, say, Nicolas Winding Refn.

Headless corpses are suspended from city bridges, unabashedly out in the open in Mexico, while still others are wrapped in plastic and buried in the drywall of a suburban home on the USA side of the border.

One of these suburban Detroit undergrads, recreational swimmer Jay (Maika Monroe), sleeps with Hugh (Jake Weary), a guy she is seeing who surprises her with a post-coital chloroform, binding, and warning that as a result of their vehicular intercourse, Jay is to be followed by something that only she will be able to see.

The backward track of this shot segues into an eerily smooth tracking shot of a suburban street from inside a gliding automobile, framed by the car window.

I'm all for improvisation, but the cast of The House seems to have been given a fairly funny high concept — in order to pay for their daughter's college tuition, a couple teams up with a neighbor to run an illegal casino out of his suburban home — and told to run with it, sans any sort of script at all.

It encapsulates the precocious fanboy naïvety of a suburban teen sheltered by a conservative upbringing who pines to integrate oneself in punk culture.

seems to have been given a fairly funny high concept — in order to pay for their daughter's college tuition, a couple teams up with a neighbor to run an illegal casino out of his suburban home — and told to run with it, sans any sort of script at all.

it was a pale and bland piece of suburban commentary / character study next to every other film it reminds me of.

In the role of a suburban single mother of two young boys, she brings emotional precision and great depth of feeling to her portrayal of a character who is by turns wise, funny, loving, self - doubting and later shattered by grief.

What ensues is the network of suburban church women driving around and trying to find the «bank» where all the money from the gambling can be tied to.

In the film, he plays Reverend Jeffers, the leader of the suburban megachurch Abundant Life, who tries to counsel Hawke's Reverend Toller with his new feelings of alienation and purposelessness.

The dark comedy Barry Munday tells the story of a suburban ladies man (Patrick Wilson) who wakes up in the hospital after being attacked, only to realize that he is missing two of his most prized possessions.

We see a quick succession of shots of a suburban - looking interior — things on sideboards, family memorabilia, the like — setting up the kind of cozy domestic space that's invariably ripe for invasion.

The story of a suburban ladies man who loses his testicles in a movie theater will have its world premiere at South By Southwest.

«Let Me In» (Anchor Bay), a remake of the Swedish coming - of - age horror movie come adolescent survival drama set in the wilds of suburban civilization, is as unexpected as can be: an American revision of a celebrated European film that manages to honor the original while translating its anxiety and unease to a distinctly American setting and, if anything, deepening the emotional power of the original.

And Malick captures all of this very movingly, casting his eye on the world of suburban tract homes and Sonic Drive - Ins, and finding some spark of the divine even there, for those willing to look past the thrumming powerlines and industrial waste.

The stakes couldn't be higher, and the scenario of suburban chaos it presents is plausible, but I don't believe that our cynicism as a culture permits the beginning of the end of the world with a conclusion that celebrates the essential decency of other people.

Soon they're not just two - timing each other but their new partners as well, sneaking around and making up excuses so they can retreat to the privacy of the suburban home they've shared for years.

She thought he was a stuck up businessperson living in the modern youth culture of suburban London, but then this whole box of information.

The Gifted tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers.