Sentences with phrase «wealthier neighborhoods with»

The context here is that we're currently in the «Moving to Opportunity» era, which is fueled by the theory that low - income families improve their lots when they're able to live in wealthier neighborhoods with better economic prospects.

Bryson is an outlier elementary school in South Gate because it's in a wealthier neighborhood with all the benefits that brings.

Located in the western part of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills is one of California's most wealthy neighborhoods with a population of around 35,000 residents.1 Beverly Hills has been listed as one of the most expensive places to live in America.

Not exact matches

The apartment could be in an wealthy neighborhood in Paris or Manhattan: a gleaming kitchen with coffeemaker, a balcony with a child's bike perched outside, and his and her laptops.

In the meantime, tenants in large rental buildings, who often bring in less than half the income of the aforementioned co-op and condo owners in wealthy neighborhoods, are more likely to be black or Hispanic — and get slammed with disproportionately higher tax bills.

The wealthiest New Yorkers have an array of options — paying for private school, moving to a neighborhood with better schools or even moving outside New York City.

Dr. Brookfield and her colleagues studied Florida women with invasive cervical cancer and found that white or Hispanic women lived longer than African - Americans (who tended to be diagnosed later than other women), as did those with health insurance or who lived in wealthier neighborhoods.

The small unit or apartment in a well - to - do area is superior than the most grand home in a lower class neighborhood, when it comes to rubbing shoulders with a wealthier group of people or rich male singles.

The movie concerns a seemingly normal nuclear family - Steve (David Duchovny), Kate (Demi Moore), Mick (Ben Hollingsworth), and Jenn (Amber Heard)- who, as it turns out, are actually a foursome of stealth marketers, with their task to infiltrate a wealthy neighborhood and surreptitiously convince its various residents to buy a series of high - end (and not - so - high - end) products.

She gets a job working as a maid in a wealthy neighborhood, but when Christina is offered the opportunity to come home with a much bigger paycheck, she finds herself employed by a local drug cartel.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

But while everyone agrees that public schools are struggling to keep up with new growth, skeptics argue that Nevada has a very small private school sector that is heavily tilted toward wealthy neighborhoods.

«Parents from low - income communities should be treated with as much respect as parents in wealthier neighborhoods.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

Wealthier families had the money to buy expensive houses in neighborhoods with better schools — we didn't.

The wealthiest New Yorkers have an array of options — paying for private school, moving to a neighborhood with better schools or even moving outside New York City.

But unlike the children in wealthy neighborhoods, they did not go home to a safe house with warmth and running water.

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.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.

When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.

This post is truncated by the troubles I'm having getting online in a blacked - out part of the Hudson Valley, but I want at least to start a discussion of the prime question of the moment: What are the political, economic, societal and personal traits that caused one of the world's wealthiest and most sophisticated cities to end up (despite longstanding warnings) with flooded tunnels, subways and neighborhoods and widespread flood - triggered loss of electricity?

Somehow we reach the conclusions that dense, walkable, neighborhoods with shared resources are better than sprawling suburbs; that mobility and accessibility for everyone is better than a private car - oriented system that serves only the healthy and wealthy; and that the reduction of carbon footprints is essential to protect the planet's ecosystems.

Some may want to boost one or more segments of this minimum to feel safer, especially if you live in a family neighborhood or a wealthy neighborhood where people own vehicles with a little extra «zoom».

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood.

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