Sentences with phrase «second wealthiest school»

A recent story in the Weston - Redding - Easton patch explained that Weston, Connecticut «is the second wealthiest school district in the United States.»

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«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.»

Second, I don't think it's fair that children who come from a wealthier household get to fill up on the proper nutrients that allow them to excel in school while children from low - income families do not.

NYC Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio has released the second video in as many days in his official campaign to convince Albany to give him the power to tax wealthy city residents and use the revenue to fund universal pre-kindergarten and after - school programs.

Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike, while her mother (Reem Abdullah) fights to hold on to her husband, whose wealthy mother is encouraging him to get a second wife.

New Jersey's second - largest categorical program is Parity Remedy Aid, a court - ordered program that targets additional funds to the so - called Abbott districts — the plaintiffs in the Abbott v. Burke school finance lawsuit — to create more equity between them and the state's wealthier and academically more successful districts.

In a 2015 Washington Post report, it was stated that for the second year in a row, the school's students showed positive testing results, with their third - graders showing a 95 % passing rate in math, even outperforming the 84 % passing rate of third - grader peers from the «largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district».

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: She was serious and thoughtful, and he would rather crack a joke than offer a real insight; he was the wealthy son of a bastion family of the Republican party, and she was a school librarian and registered Democrat.

She slammed the New York school system for being «the second most unequal in the country,» noting that there is a $ 10,000 per - pupil funding gap between students in the wealthiest versus poorest school districts.

As to Harvard's plans, well... a recent study has shown that more of the top 100 of the US wealthier practitioners (read plaintiffs» - bar practitioners) graduated from «second - tier» law schools than from the self - described «elite» US law schools.