Sentences with phrase «poor towns»

Burnett was disappointed by the fact that he was unable to shoot in high summer, but the film's autumnal landscapes have a quiet beauty and are free of the cheap, gaudy, corporate chain stores that infest poor towns in today's America.

We're repaving this summer, putting in a new «line,» resodding the neutral ground, setting new curbs, using our proud new tax dollars - the workers all Cape Verdeans and wily Hondurans from poorer towns north of here.

In 1990 the state reached its high point of funding 45 % of the costs — the number now is between 38 - 40 % depending on how you calculate it — but the formula has been «corrupted» to the point where wealthy towns do much better (as measured by percentage growth) now than they did in 1990 and poorer towns do much worse.

Deforestation and poor town planning put residents at risk.

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

The amount of money won't have a profound impact for poor towns, but it will certainly ensure major cuts to local schools in a large number of towns and lead to significantly higher property taxes in the majority of Connecticut's communities.

Last month a judge ruled that the way Connecticut funds its public schools is unconstitutional and said differences in funding among districts in wealthier and poorer towns led to achievement gaps.

Mare lives with her impoverished family in a desolate, poor town known as The Stilts (appropriately named due to homes being suspended above the ground on stilts - thus only being accessed by ladders).

The 30,000 locals in the [almost] poor town cater to thousands of daily visitors looking to get amazing selfies with the many non-captive whale sharks.

You play as Lloyd, from the very poor town of iselia.

It is a picturesque but poor town in the hills about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh.

In 1990 the state reached its high point of funding 45 % of the cost of local education — the number now is between 38 - 40 % depending on how you calculate it — but the formula has been «corrupted» to the point that wealthy towns do much better now than they did in 1990 and poorer towns do much worse.

Dillian, who grew up in a poor town in eastern Connecticut, was only 27 when he started working as a trader at Lehman Brothers.

One day a volunteer - in - mission group arrived to lay the foundation for a new church in Mella, one of the poorest towns in the Dominican Republic.

He chose one of his three pairs of mud - caked shoes, and then he and his companion went out to proselytize on the unpaved streets in the poorest section of one of the poorest towns in the second - poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

From the southeastern shore to the Massachusetts border, the district includes rich and poor towns, universities and military bases, and a range of social issues.

He should now turn the policy agenda into the progressive causes and campaigns for this generation: that no child should grow up in poverty in this affluent society; that pupils in state schools should enjoy similar opportunities to those educated privately; that work should earn a living wage and we must invest in the skills of all to avoid being losers in a global economy; that we should not die sooner if born in a poorer town.

XD Born & Raised & Live in a small, historical, haunted, poor town (seriously folks!)

Following the success of last year's Million Dollar Arm, which was pretty decent, and previous efforts like Cool Runnings (brilliant), Invincible (okay) and even Remember The Titans with Denzel Washington (decent), the studio presents McFarland, a film named after one of the poorest towns in California, situated just north of Los Angeles.

Beatriz at Dinner (Director: Miguel Arteta, Screenwriter: Mike White)-- Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner.

The location depicted here is Odessa, Texas, where a poor town has given birth to the most successful football program in the state, the Permian Panthers.

Well it may not be the best movie Disney ever made, but it is still a fantastic look into not only the world of cross country running, but what it's like to be a child of immigrant workers in one of the poorest towns in America.

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner in Southern California.

Beatriz (Salma Hayek), an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner in Los Angeles.

Nichols and cinematographer Adam Stone really capture the rough and coarse atmosphere that goes with living along the river in a small and poor town.

I created a table and some basic scatterplots to show how charter high schools in New Jersey compare on SAT results to public high schools that serve students in some of New Jersey's wealthiest and poorest towns.

Other proposals that advanced in the package Wednesday include a plan that would provide preschool to 3,800 students in the state's cities and poor towns.

ForTheRecord says: At least when it comes to Michigan, the author's suggestion that schools in affluent communities gets more overall funding than those that are poorer towns is not true.

The way it is set up, about $ 40 million goes to the 30 poorest towns, $ 10 million is spread out to the «middle class towns» and the wealthiest towns get no addition funds.

Windham is a poor town, with a fair number of people on fixed incomes and a sizeable cohort of landlords who live out of town.

While about $ 50 million was added to Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing Formula for distribution to the state's local public schools, the vast majority of those funds were targeted to a select group of the 30 poorest towns that are called «Alliance Districts» under Malloy's education reform initiative.

But Moukawsher's generalizations about public schools and teachers were glaringly ignorant of the real strides that Connecticut schools — including the ones in «poor towns» — are making.

I do agree, in principle, with the judge's ruling that «Connecticut is defaulting on its constitutional duty to provide adequate public school opportunities,» particularly since the state's educational funding formula «allows rich towns to raid money desperately needed by poor towns,» essentially «mak [ing] a mockery of the state's constitutional duty to provide adequate educational opportunities to all students.»

Their poor town is made poorer by rampant gambling: many have lost everything at the racetrack, where the rich and powerful race mechanical horses, known as Titans.