Sentences with phrase «of wealthy schools»

That is one - third the district average, making it one of the wealthiest schools in a district whose students overall have gotten poorer.

Nearly all of the wealthiest school districts are within a short distance of one of the richest cities in the country.

Other than one suburb of Portland, Ore., all of the wealthiest school districts are commuter towns of New York City, located in either Fairfield County, Conn., or Westchester County, N.Y..

Not exact matches

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

The Gülenist network of businesses, charities, schools, and other organizations is wealthy and well - connected, in Turkey and the United States.

According to some of Canada's top luxury real estate agents, the wealthy are looking for value in their new home — properties that are in good locations, in close proximity to work and local schools.

Wealthy schools also capture the bulk of charitable gifts flowing to higher education.

«According to a study from researchers at Harvard Business School, the University of Mannheim, and Yale University, wealthy individuals report that having three to four times as much money would give them a perfect» 10» score on happiness — regardless of how much wealth they already have,» reports the release.

Like many wealthy individuals, the wealthiest school have a wide range of income sources, said Moody's.

A child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Cherny says he watched his mom and dad — who worked as a school counselor and a teamster, respectively — struggle with a banking system that largely catered to the wealthy.

Most of the students who graduate from Columbia Business School are going to be somewhere between wealthy and rich.

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

But what kind of man has the power to undress another man's well - cared - for daughter, to unleash the hidden sexual eagerness of all the beautiful, spurning girls who walk the high - school corridors of this country, emerging into respectable professions before being snapped up by wealthy doctors and lawyers and becoming the soccer moms of tomorrow?

While an improved economy and rising stock market have helped private institutions repair much of the Great Recession's damage to their endowments, the biggest investment gains and largest gifts are flowing to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's.

This is one of the wealthiest and most exclusive areas in the country and it's known for its large, historical homes, rich architectural history and top - notch school system.

Or maybe you can expand your list of target schools for your child now that you're a little wealthier.

Mr. Kesselman, a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, says increasing annual limits will only benefit the wealthy and end up costing Ottawa billions of dollars more than has been anticipated.

Wealthy families start buying their children's way into elite colleges almost from the moment they are born: music lessons, sports equipment, foreign travel («enrichment» programs, to use the all - too - perfect term)-- most important, of course, private - school tuition or the costs of living in a place with top - tier public schools.

The Archdiocesan of NY is amongst the wealthiest in the nation yet they have closed down close to 40 schools in the past two years alone.

There's also a historical precedent for Christian involvement in education, whether you look at the monastic schools of the middle ages or the wealthy benefactors providing education for the 19thcentury poor.

• In an article on the anxieties of wealthy New York parents trying to get their small children into elite preschools, a New York Times reporter writes of standing outside one of the sought - after public schools, which happens to be one of four public schools recently the subject of a sex - abuse scandal.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

I have friends who are political and economic conservatives, wealthy people who send their children to private schools in New England at a cost of $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 a year.

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

Robinson is popular among wealthy alumni of the private school who remember his winning percentage of 81.9 percent.

Meanwhile, the difference between the SAT scores of wealthy and poor high school seniors has actually increased over the past 30 years, from a 90 - point gap (on an 800 - point scale) in the 1980s to a 125 - point gap today.

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 neighboSchools 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 neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

Time to wake up and pay attention before a handful of uber wealthy take over the schools completely (see what's happening in Michigan).

No matter the demographics of the community — low - income or wealthy, private or public school, ethnically diverse or homogenous — there simply isn't a consensus of what parents want from school lunch.

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.

Despite representing a school where more than 60 % of the students are from low - income families, the chess team consistently beats wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Overnight, Lily has to transition from a life of luxury and education at a wealthy Montecito boarding school to living deep in the San Fernando Valley she once made fun of and going to public school.

Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

On the other side: De Blasio and his allies, who had already planned to be in Albany Tuesday to rally for his ever - more - out - of - reach plan to let the city tax wealthy residents to expand pre-K and after school programs in the five boroughs.

The group has been funded in part by Dan Loeb, a wealthy supporter of charter schools who last year apologized after making a racially charged remark at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

«amount of man - hours employed in the production of goods consumed» So, a person with a private tutor that puts in fewer hoursis less wealthy than a a person who goes to public school that has multiple teachers / administrators / etc.

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

This seems to indicate that being born wealthy represents a kind of inertia to stay wealthy — you can afford better schools, tuition, universities, housing, and have a large network of other wealthy business connections when you come from a rich family.

The teachers unions have also pointed to wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

Albany, New York — A major New York State union is going on the air with televisions ads to try to convince state lawmakers to continue a tax on the wealthy instead of adopting Governor Cuomo's billion and half dollars in school aid cuts.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time,» and she said Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools than on the state's poorest schools.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.