Sentences with phrase «wealthy kids from»

Despite representing a school where more than 60 % of the students are from low - income families, the chess team consistently beats wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.

Not exact matches

While ours kids are growing up in a 24/7 digital world, children in lower income households have less access to technology than kids from wealthier families.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children from poorer neighborhoods who are hospitalized are more likely to die before discharge than kids from wealthier areas, according to a new study.

An example might be the pupil premium approach which ensures that young kids from poor backgrounds get much higher funding (at around fee - paying school levels) thus ensuring that they keep up with their wealthier peers at school.

And a wealthy couple entered into a contract giving the man the right to wander one weekend a year in exchange for allowing the missus to bear a fifth child — though after five kids, I imagine the mom might welcome a respite from sex.

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

Wealthy districts that get additional funding from their taxpayers aren't likely to want to share it with out - of - district kids.

Or a school so new that the state hasn't ranked it, one that doesn't prioritize smart kids or students from wealthy neighborhoods.

What we learn about the wealthy benefactor from how she helps some of her favorite kids is also pretty revealing.

But that's less about discipline and more about making sure our students have access to clothing that wealthier kids aren't differentiated from less wealthy kids by virtue of what clothes they can afford and those sorts of things.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

The Lakeside School could then hire its own private limousines to take the kids of the very wealthy to and from their private schools - all paid for by Washington state tax payers!

That many an educational leader has used these annual results to push hard conversations (and even harder actions) to ensure we are holding ourselves and each other responsible for educating all kids — not just the kids from wealthier zip codes — to high levels?

It's possible that the most wealthy parents are sending their kids to private schools outside West Haven, directing their resources away from the public school system.

NDP: Cancel income splitting for families with kids under the age of 18 but keep it for seniors; eliminate the CEO stock option loophole that allows wealthy CEOs to avoid taxes on 50 % of income received from cashing in company stock (with proceeds invested into eliminating child poverty); increase investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) by 15 % to further support working Canadians who live below the poverty line; introduce income averaging for artists.