Sentences with phrase «wealthier neighborhoods on»

He plans to drive his through the wilds of Coldwater Canyon, a wealthy neighborhood on rugged hillsides.

After a week of watching kids huff glue and have seizures in the street, Ania and I decided to move to El Pobaldo, a wealthy neighborhood on the other side of the city.

Not exact matches

«Wilding,» when teenagers from Chicago's tougher neighborhoods invade the wealthier ones and do everything from rob convenience stores to assault passersby, gave way to bloodier crimes as Chicago's gang culture splintered in on itself, The Daily Beast reported in August.

In 2011, dozens of demonstrators descended on Mnuchin's $ 26.5 million home in the wealthy Bel Air neighborhood to protest OneWest's eviction tactics, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

Opponents, however, allege that the some - versus - none argument advances the interests of wealthy developers and private equity firms that speculate on neighborhoods.

He even introduced a bill last month that would crack down on real estate firms that create new names for neighborhoods to attract wealthier buyers and renters.

The result is that schools in wealthy neighborhoods, which tend to attract more experienced and therefore more expensive teachers, spend more on salaries than they actually pay for.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

While time for dance and music is offered, current and former parents say the schools skimp on social studies, science, the visual arts and the kind of creative, sensory activities that fill the days at high - performing schools in wealthier neighborhoods.

Wealthier neighborhoods hoard wealth and maintain a racially separate school system through a financial structure based on property taxes.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

There's a stark difference between the city's overall opt out numbers and the state's, and it's certainly true that parents at some schools in wealthier neighborhoods, whose schools can count on high test scores (as they are largely correlated with socioeconomic status), may have more time, a bigger platform to speak up, and, above all, more access to accurate information about the tests, their impacts and the right to refuse them.

They were the kind you found on the covers of home remodeling magazines and in sitcoms set in wealthy, big - city neighborhoods.

Laura Owens and Gavin Brown, the same hip artists, wealthy investors, and blue - chip gallerists are developing their enterprises on both coasts, many of them directly in Boyle Heights and in other working - class POC neighborhoods.

The share of solar installations within middle class neighborhoods — those in the $ 40,000 to $ 90,000 income range — continues to increase, meaning that solar installers are relying less on wealthier customers to drive growth and more on middle income customers.

Wealthier neighborhoods have higher scores for reasons that have little to do with what's going on in the classroom.