Sentences with phrase «serve affluent communities»

Because this center serves an affluent community and remains fully leased except for the anchor space, it does seem possible to turn the situation around.

Not exact matches

This would seem to be a simple matter of common sense in affluent communities, but it represents a form of privilege, it seems, in schools serving low - income, urban children.

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

Atlas parents who serve on the Community Curriculum Council, join PTOs, or serve on site councils tend to be relatively affluent and white.

In a school district, the better - resourced schools tend to serve high - income populations in affluent communities, and the under - funded schools tend to serve low - income populations in disadvantaged communities.

The top public comprehensive district high schools all serve more affluent communities with one notable exception:

«Most important,» Thorpe added, «we have to make sure that quality teaching is as prevalent in schools serving poor communities as it is in more affluent ones.

Students in schools serving predominantly low - income families tend to endure teacher absence at a higher rate than students in more affluent communities.

She said the school would not advance the community because it is located in an affluent part of the North Side that she believes is well - served by public schools.

However, the PROSPER Act's approach to accountability ignores important lessons from state performance - based funding systems, many of which have been shown to funnel limited state dollars to well - resourced institutions that enroll the most affluent and academically prepared students while failing to support institutions that serve a more representative community.2 Rather than applying an immediate penalty through the blunt instrument of an artificial threshold, an effective accountability system would reward colleges that enroll and graduate Pell - eligible students while providing underperforming and underfunded institutions the time, resources, and support they need to improve.

«A lot of people said to us that it's a very affluent area and we serve Boca Raton, which is another affluent area, but there is certainly pockets of need in every affluent community.»