Sentences with phrase «of wealthy neighborhoods»

A portrait of social entrapment in the 20th century, the movie chronicles the development of wealthy neighborhoods in Baltimore and the ghettoization of its black population to the point where the community has remained in perennial disrepair.

The average rent of an apartment in Manhattan is now almost $ 3,500 a month, and though the figure is raised by the astonishing rents in many of the wealthier neighborhoods (we were reading about one apartment overlooking Gramercy Park that rented for $ 30,000 a month), rents are high even in the poor neighborhoods.

This finding suggests that features such as parks and communal landscaping that are characteristic of wealthier neighborhoods as well as lush landscaping choices of neighbors can compensate for local choices of homeowners.

Not exact matches

«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

In 2011, dozens of demonstrators descended on Mnuchin's $ 26.5 million home in the wealthy Bel Air neighborhood to protest OneWest's eviction tactics, according to the Los Angeles Times.

But gentrification in many of the city's neighborhoods has become a sore spot as single - family bungalows are replaced by high - density townhouses for younger, wealthier residents.

That sort of change then steamrolls into neighborhood makeovers, where yoga studios and coffee shops suddenly replace laundromats and bars to accommodate a wealthier clientele.

The consequence of this concentrated mix of housing is that the young and the old, singles and families, the poor and the wealthy, can all find places to live within the neighborhood.

Their activities are admirable, but do we really want to tell other poor neighborhoods that what they need are some big, wealthy, mainline churches full of suburbanites?

She lived in the poorer neighborhood of town, he lived in the wealthier.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

He'd also like to see an end to vacancy decontrol and a revamp of the 421 - a program that takes the neighborhood Area Median Income into consideration, as opposed to the current system that includes New York City and the wealthier areas of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties.

Residents of those neighborhoods want fewer shelters around them and more to be built in whiter, wealthier places too.

Opponents, however, allege that the some - versus - none argument advances the interests of wealthy developers and private equity firms that speculate on neighborhoods.

In the meantime, tenants in large rental buildings, who often bring in less than half the income of the aforementioned co-op and condo owners in wealthy neighborhoods, are more likely to be black or Hispanic — and get slammed with disproportionately higher tax bills.

The 106 - member Democratic conference includes representatives of suburban, inner city, rural, wealthy, poor and middle - class neighborhoods.

New York City's comptroller Scott Stringer is criticizing the planned LinkNYC free Wi - Fi program, arguing that it will actually accentuate existing inequality by delivering the fastest service to the wealthiest (read: most advertising lucrative) neighborhoods years ahead of other parts of the city, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York Times.

The wealthiest New Yorkers have an array of options — paying for private school, moving to a neighborhood with better schools or even moving outside New York City.

He recited a litany of statistics comparing crime rates in minority neighborhoods like Brownsville, Brooklyn, to wealthier, whiter areas, like Murray Hill, Manhattan.

«The only thing Lovely Warren did to cause the continue rebirth of downtown is to keep giving wealthy developers and residents of downtown our tax dollars; meanwhile people in neighborhoods didn't get a break,» Barnhart told reporters.

Wealthy neighborhood residents — mostly from one neighboring building — have successfully lobbied their local elected officials to rezone a 10 - block stretch of the area limiting the scope of Gamma's tower.

In wealthier neighborhoods, the exterior of vacant buildings is usually maintained, while in neighborhoods such as Harlem or the Lower East Side, vacant buildings tend to look dilapidated.

Perhaps you can't afford to dine in an expensive restaurant, but you can probably have your morning coffee at one of the coffee houses in the upscale neighborhoods where wealthy people live.

Wealthy men seeking women for dating translates to living in posh hotels, eating grade A-beef and hitting the bar at the most exclusive of places and living in what can only be described as surprisingly rich neighborhoods next do to who's who in the world.

The small unit or apartment in a well - to - do area is superior than the most grand home in a lower class neighborhood, when it comes to rubbing shoulders with a wealthier group of people or rich male singles.

Murder in Pacot A wealthy neighborhood in Port - au - Prince is nearly destroyed by the Haitian earthquake of 2010 in this smart, unconventional drama (2015) by Raoul Peck (Lumumba).

When the pressures of having no income pile up and the stream of judgement from his wealthy father - in - law roll over him, he finds himself taking his gun out of his safe and wandering out into the desert outside his Albuquerque suburban neighborhood to potentially do something drastic.

The movie concerns a seemingly normal nuclear family - Steve (David Duchovny), Kate (Demi Moore), Mick (Ben Hollingsworth), and Jenn (Amber Heard)- who, as it turns out, are actually a foursome of stealth marketers, with their task to infiltrate a wealthy neighborhood and surreptitiously convince its various residents to buy a series of high - end (and not - so - high - end) products.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

Medium neighborhoods have between 5 and 10 % of families below the poverty line and wealthier neighborhoods have less than 5 % below the poverty line.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

In December, the coalition sent letters to 22 wealthy individuals — including Siart — who are some of the most active in funding pro-charter candidates and the charter industry in California, asking the recipients to sign a Statement of Support to invest in a strategy for traditional neighborhood schools, ensuring that all children have access to a truly high - quality education.

While time for dance and music is offered, current and former parents say the schools skimp on social studies, science, the visual arts and the kind of creative, sensory activities that fill the days at high - performing schools in wealthier neighborhoods.

Sarah Irvine Belson, one of the authors of the report, said schools offering the most amount of physical education time are distributed relatively evenly throughout the District and are not clustered in wealthier neighborhoods.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

But if these same failing schools were located in Center City or Chestnut Hill, does anyone doubt that the wealthy residents of these neighborhoods would choose charters or any other better option for their children?

In Washington, D.C., for instance, private schools proliferate in the white, wealthier areas of the city and majority - black charter schools are situated in the black, poorer neighborhoods (see figures 1 and 2).

The wealthiest New Yorkers have an array of options — paying for private school, moving to a neighborhood with better schools or even moving outside New York City.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

We have found ways to make wealthy enclaves the north star of districts, either by creating zones in economically homogeneous neighborhoods or by using selective admissions tests.

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

The schools are primarily located in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods, and while they have many of the freedoms granted charters in how the schools are run, they adhere to all district collective bargaining agreements and also receive their budgets directly from the district.

And it isn't just parents in the wealthier Northwest neighborhoods — where a high concentration of such programs are located — who want in.

U.S. News & World Report looks at the trend of white, wealthy neighborhoods seceding from their school districts to form new districts.

In upper - middle - class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents.

In most places, the whiter the neighborhood, the better the school system; and the better the school system, the higher the prices of homes, making it impossible for those who aren't wealthy to escape substandard schools.

Wealthy parents in Reseda can look into their children's educational career and see two options: Send their kids out of their own neighborhood to schools that have pretty low scores OR they can choose to send their kids to one of the several affordable private schools in the area.