Sentences with phrase «wealthy students in»

For instance, Amistad Academy in New Haven reported a significant jump in math and reading proficiency scores on statewide tests, with some students performing «almost as well» as wealthier students in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Actually, he has been instrumental in helping many escape student loan debts and become wealthy.

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.

In a big shift that could affect school desegregation efforts, the Capitol Region Education Council says it will begin charging tuition to wealthier families who enroll new prekindergarten students in the agency's coveted magnet schoolIn a big shift that could affect school desegregation efforts, the Capitol Region Education Council says it will begin charging tuition to wealthier families who enroll new prekindergarten students in the agency's coveted magnet schoolin the agency's coveted magnet schools.

De Blasio gained ground on his opponents in recent weeks with a liberal platform that included a promise to radically reform stop - and - frisk and hike taxes on the wealthy to pay for free pre-K and after - school programs for city students.

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

The state needs to do its fair share and stop passing along the pain to students and local taxpayers in order to please the wealthiest and most privileged in our state.»

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

Anticipating the fight, Senate Democrats joined in faulting Republicans for protecting wealthy tax dodgers over college students.

Bailey brushed aside a reporter's question about the optics of the secretary making her first school visit in New York City to one that caters to a wealthy student body, out of sync with the city's school system where about three - quarters of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

While they may bill themselves as «reformers,» the wealthy elite don't want to address the real reason why some students in some of our schools are struggling — and that's poverty.»

That money should be used to invest in infrastructure, affordable housing and student debt relief, not on tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans, Rhodes said.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

Many educators on both sides of the divide acknowledge that these inequities have an adverse effect on all students, both those in poor districts and those in wealthier ones.

We will ask the very wealthy to pay a little more in taxes so that we can offer full - day universal pre-K and after - school programs for every middle school student.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

But in the English exams even students in the state's wealthiest schools saw scores slip a bit, from an average of 52 percent in 2013 passing to 49 percent this year.

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

In fact, the racial disparity in student loan debt is highest among those who come from the wealthiest familieIn fact, the racial disparity in student loan debt is highest among those who come from the wealthiest familiein student loan debt is highest among those who come from the wealthiest families.

I am a medical student in the Caribbean who is hard up and urgently need a wealthy man to sponsor my education so that I can become a meical doctor.

Most of these women are attractive and ambitious students, actresses or models who are seeking wealthy men to pamper them and support them financially as well as emotionally in return for companionship and sexual favors.

Sugar Daddy business is flourishing worldwide, including in China, as wealthy men and women search for «sugar babies»: young students who need money to pay off their college and living expenses.

They are assisting young, gorgeous college students finding wealthy benefactors to help paying for their tuition fees in exchange for sugar babies» time and intimate companionship... [read more]

The billboard sparked criticism because it seemed to encourage young female students to date wealthy businessmen in return for shopping, travel or money.

The relationship, which is based on grounds of mutual benefits, is ideal for wealthy businessmen and female students who seek a better lifestyle in foreign land.

These days there are several wealthy and successful men who are Sugar Daddy Dating Australia as well as the sugar babies here in Australia are attractive, classy woman, Gorgeous and young college students, would - be actresses or models, we just name just a few.

Well, wealthy singles looking for hookups are seeking the companionship of college students who are more likely to spend quality time with them and are in need of money.

They are assisting young, gorgeous college students finding wealthy benefactors to help paying for their tuition fees in exchange for sugar babies» time and intimate companionship.

A «sugar daddy» sponsors «sugar baby», often penniless student, which focuses on a wealthy man to fund his rent or his studies in exchange for visits to restaurants or the theater.

Cash - strapped students sign up to Seeking Arrangement website in bid to find wealthy suitor to pay tuition fees in return for companionship.

A trio of American art students are trapped at a high - price, top - secret retreat where wealthy clients satisfy their bloodlust in this terrifying, blackly comic sequel from director Eli Roth, starring Lauren German, Bijou Phillips and Heather Matarazzo.

Synopsis: Tennis instructor Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers) grows friendly with Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), a wealthy student who shares an interest in o...

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

Olsen, whose profile rose dramatically this year following her turn in «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» will play Edie Parker, the wealthy art - student girlfriend of Jack Kerouac (Huston).

Locals love the inside jokes, the reference to wealthy students hanging out at the upscale Pavilion's Shopping Center or living in the tony suburb of Granite Bay.

When 15 year - old private school student and chronic extracurricular under - overachiever Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) becomes disillusioned with his academic career, he meets a detached wealthy industrialist (Bill Murray), and both men learn about love in an awkward romantic triangle with Max's teacher (Olivia Williams).

Times are tough for Andie in school, where she and her friends are tormented by the wealthy students who make... read more

Now in her 20s herself (though now, ironically, playing a teen), Gellar exudes a captivatingly carniverous carnality as Kathryn Merteuil, a bored, insanely wealthy NY prep school student for whom selfish psychosexual mindgames provide the ultimate thrill.

The film follows the relationship between a bullied student, Shelly (Hasson), whose home life is in shambles, and a wealthy eccentric, Wes (Burke), with no friends and issues with women.

The monkey monster wrecks mayhem in the hallways and impresses a wealthy student named Finnegan (Freddie Fox), whose dismissive demeanor turns to admiration and a pledge of financial support for Frankenstein's next creation: A super human.

They made handsome movies about casually wealthy people, usually members of an academic and artistic elite, who loll about in beautiful European locals — here an Italian estate where an art history scholar, Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg), hosts a student named Oliver (Armie Hammer), who develops a reciprocated attraction to Perlman's 17 - year - old son Elio (Lady Bird «s Timothée Chalamet).

The thin plot centers on the various romances within a wealthy family in New York, as narrated by one DJ (spunky newcomer Natasha Lyonne), a Columbia University student who falls in love with a new guy just about every month.