Sentences with phrase «of wealthy students»

Unfortunately, you will be competing with the families of wealthy students for the units who are searching off campus.

There is absolutely no question of wealthy students being able to buy their way into university.

According to the study, 50 percent of the wealthiest students with a learning disability reported receiving accommodations; only 30 percent of low - income, working - class, and middle - class students with a learning disability said they received extra help.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

Scores have risen even after accounting for an influx of wealthier students.

Not exact matches

BC's second - wealthiest neighbourhood maintains its lofty position despite a (presumably comparatively impoverished) population of basement - dwelling students drawn by the proximity to the University of British Columbia.

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

Backed by some of Chile's wealthiest investors, Idea Factory has set up a few locations throughout Santiago to give inventors a place to work and to provide students and budding entrepreneurs with access to classes and influential leaders.

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

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.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

Even a student earning $ 105 a week is wealthier than 85 percent of the world.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

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.

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.

Worse, it creates a stigma around cafeteria meals if only poor students eat them, while wealthier students grab a few slices of pizza from the student activities sale table.

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.

«My Republican colleagues need to prioritize the future of America's students instead of tax breaks for the wealthy,» Rangel wrote.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

Bailey brushed aside a reporter's question about the optics of the secretary making her first school visit in New York City to one that caters to a wealthy student body, out of sync with the city's school system where about three - quarters of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

While they may bill themselves as «reformers,» the wealthy elite don't want to address the real reason why some students in some of our schools are struggling — and that's poverty.»

That money should be used to invest in infrastructure, affordable housing and student debt relief, not on tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans, Rhodes said.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

Many educators on both sides of the divide acknowledge that these inequities have an adverse effect on all students, both those in poor districts and those in wealthier ones.

So - called high needs schools will be able to raise a maximum of $ 10 more per pupil, while wealthy or low needs schools can raise up to $ 27 per student, under the cap.

But in the English exams even students in the state's wealthiest schools saw scores slip a bit, from an average of 52 percent in 2013 passing to 49 percent this year.

Cuomo is asking lawmakers to put the needs of Wall Street and the wealthy ahead of the needs of our students, the poor and the middle class,» said Mark Dunlea of Hunger Action New York.

If union supporters carry the day, the world's wealthiest university will become home to the newest chapter of the United Auto Workers (UAW), marking one of the first instances of a private university being forced to accept a union of students against its will.

Not just a hothouse for the already privileged, it uses money from foundations and wealthy individuals to provide financial assistance to half of its students.

The district also includes students from both low - income and wealthy households and also is one of the nation's most desegregated systems, a product of a 1970s court - order merging of city and suburban districts to further desegregation.

Another group of students was exposed to «chilly» promotional statements that suggested that their university was focused on serving wealthier families as opposed to a socioeconomically diverse range of students and families.

The website contains profiles of college students and wealthy single men that are seeking the company of each other for a fulfilling relationship.

Most of these women are attractive and ambitious students, actresses or models who are seeking wealthy men to pamper them and support them financially as well as emotionally in return for companionship and sexual favors.

Manila sugar babies are intelligent and attractive young women who know they deserve to date the generous and wealthy man, most of them are Manila super models, young Manila actresses, Manila college students and pretty girl next door, they need financial support for their courses or career.

It is seen that a lot of college students prefer becoming a sugar baby as it fulfills their needs of money as well as company of a wealthy man.

The phenomenon I was talking about is the trend of college students meeting older, wealthier men «It's a trend.

It may be the age of #MeToo, but a Las Vegas - based online dating site that purports to match needy college students with wealthy, older men and women claims it too is growing as students struggle to deal with college costs.

The sugar daddies of the foreign college students often take their sugar babies on numerous trips to one of the kind components of Australia, to lead them to acquaint with the wealthy subculture of this country.

According to SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site that connects college students with wealthy benefactors, the University of Texas is the fastest growing campus adopting this relationship.

The relationship, which is based on grounds of mutual benefits, is ideal for wealthy businessmen and female students who seek a better lifestyle in foreign land.

Sugar babies are also active member of Sudy including models, beauty queens, college students, struggling actresses etc. who are looking for wealthy, settled and rich individuals.

Well, wealthy singles looking for hookups are seeking the companionship of college students who are more likely to spend quality time with them and are in need of money.

When you're a young student or not that fincially secure, it makes perfect sense to choose a wealthy man over a poor man... providing you have equal feelings for both of course.

The dating website promises to match wealthy «sugar daddies» to significantly younger «sugar babies» and is being utilised by university students to help with the crippling amount of debt secondary education entails.

This rich men dating site contains several profiles of young students and attractive women, who are looking out for a wealthy and affluent lifestyle.

Sold as somewhere between a business relationship and dating, the practice involves young, attractive, predominantly female «sugar babies» — many of them students — exchanging their companionship for financial support from older, wealthy predominantly male «sugar daddies» or «mommies».