Sentences with phrase «only affluent families»

This allows families with more modest incomes to access more and diverse schooling options for their children, a luxury only affluent families could enjoy before educational choice began to take hold in the states.

Not exact matches

Affluent families are not only more likely to own both but to own a lot of both, and so enjoy a larger share of any recovery.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

In black families, not only is debt higher, but there is no difference between wealthy black families and less affluent black families.

This situation is not only a sad outgrowth of America's socioeconomic divide but also a huge problem for universities and employers, considering that birthrates are flat or down among the affluent white suburban families that have traditionally sent their kids to college.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

The lower - income family that tithes to their church may have to forgo a meal out or new clothes to do so, whereas the very affluent donor experiences only a reduction in net worth on a spreadsheet.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

A new study just came out showing that America's public schools have the highest reading test scores in the world, if you only included affluent families.

It is one of the fastest - growing segments of the car market, and one in which it is important for Land Rover to have a presence, not only to grow overall sales but also to introduce younger, less affluent buyers to the brand in the hope that they can be retained and buy more expensive models as their families and salaries grow.

It carries 11 passengers to Martha's Vineyard, and only two survive: a painter named Scott Burroughs (the odd man out on this flight full of affluent media moguls and titans of industry) and a 4 - year - old boy, now the last member of his privileged family.

This strategy enables an affluent family not only to split income, but also pay for expenses with pre-tax dollars.

«Beating the benchmark isn't the only measure of success,» argues Dan Hallett, vice-president of HighView Financial Group, a portfolio management firm for affluent families.

And, non-lawyers (even sophisticated, affluent business people) routinely fail to grasp that a Will only governs assets which don't have beneficiary designations and is subject to forced marital share and minimum family inheritance laws that act by operation of law as well as other «gap filling» presumptions that modify the literal meaning of certain kinds of language in a Will.