Sentences with phrase «rich neighborhoods»

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

But it's in rich neighborhoods, not poor ones, where such practices thrive.

Dressing up in a child - sized bunad for Syttende Mai parades in the Scandinavian - rich neighborhood of Ballard, eating the traditional feasts my grandparents would serve us on holidays, listening to the heavy and melodic accent that wove its way through my relatives» speech — this was my upbringing and I loved it.

The culprit is the overreliance on property taxes to fund local public schools, which helps rich neighborhoods with high property values have better public schools than do poor areas.

The Joan Mitchell Center aspires to be an asset to an already culturally rich neighborhood in New Orleans.

Only time I kinda enjoy the park is if hubby is with me and we drive to one of the fancy rich neighborhoods and try and pretend we live there while enjoying their updated parks with safer equipment with fewer kids and bullies crowding the structures, mostly just old ladies out for a stroll with their groomed toy poodles.

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.

It includes a diverse cross-section of industrial zones, rich neighborhoods littered with tacky McMansions, and ranch land right out of the Old West.»

There is much great culture to savor in Carnegie Hill, one of the country's oldest, and most architecturally rich neighborhoods.

Especially in the United States, where public schools are partly funded by local property taxes, students who attend schools in richer neighborhoods often outperform their peers from more disadvantaged areas.

Gowanus was one of several art - rich neighborhoods hit hard by the late October superstorm, along with such postindustrial shorefront enclaves as Red Hook and Dumbo, not to mention the West Chelsea gallery district, which suffered unprecedented damage.

The installation opens on September 17th to the public and, will no doubt enhance the appeal of this already artistically rich neighborhood.

He is a democrat, and represents District 25 in the city, including the immigrant - rich neighborhoods of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.

«Now, out of sheer resilience and determination, Little Haiti is this vibrant, culturally interesting, culturally rich neighborhood, now it's too good for us?»

Especially in rich neighborhoods.

In other words, the number of people of color has less predictive power for time surging the richer the neighborhood.

I bought a home in a rich neighborhood because it is close to my work place, but I think other school districts would benefit more from my money.

«810 River Avenue demonstrates how a rezoning can be a catalyst for mixed - use, mixed - income residential development in transit - rich neighborhoods,» said HPD Commissioner Vicki Been.

After completing a job in Cincinnati, Joe returns home to Queens where he's hired by a state senator to locate and retrieve his missing teenage daughter, whom he believes has been sold into sexual slavery in the city's richest neighborhoods.

In 1999 in Los Angeles, Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) is a teenage drug - dealer in a rich neighborhood of San Gabriel Valley.

These are parents who don't have the means to move to a richer neighborhood with better public schools, so instead they have to rely on luck.

Rich neighborhoods: If you live in a rich area, burglars will likely target you.

You can buy it here if you like: Rich Like Them: My Door - to - Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America's Richest Neighborhoods

This creative «place - keeping» project will put Fleisher's spaces and resources into the hands of Southeast Philadelphia community members, in an effort to make exhibitions more responsive to area residents and to preserve and promote the diverse cultural life of immigrant - rich neighborhoods.

They want amenity - rich neighborhoods and complexes.