Sentences with phrase «with more affluent families»

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

Not exact matches

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

Combined with caps on housing benefit and significant hikes in social housing rents, poorer families could be chased out of more affluent areas.

(Better teachers tend to self - select into programs with children from more affluent and better educated families, and that is why the children may do better).

In other words, the financial pain of purchasing daycare and preschool services is less for more affluent compared to less affluent families, whereas the absolute price of the service is higher for more affluent families, with likely impacts on quality.

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

He says that if pupils are in families that are struggling with unemployment, bad housing and poor health, the ability of schools to close the gap with more affluent children is going to be limited.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

This allows families with more modest incomes to access more and diverse schooling options for their children, a luxury only affluent families could enjoy before educational choice began to take hold in the states.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

At the height of the tourist season — winter and summer — Waikïkï Beach was crowded with visitors, but during the offseason there was more room for families like ours, from less affluent parts of the city, and my family and I would often enjoy the beach in the company of my Korean «sisters» and their families.

With a median income of $ 61,176 for a family, and a per capita income of $ 26,815, Henderson is a more affluent city than some, but still retains its working class roots.

Because they are more affordable, term life products are typically popular with younger, less affluent consumers — particularly families who need the protection, but may not have the available cash for more expensive products, Theroux adds, which offer investment options in exchange for higher premiums.

With a median income of $ 61,176 for a family, and a per capita income of $ 26,815, Henderson is a more affluent city than some, but still retains its working class roots.

Affluent families who can afford higher quality center - based and in - home care are more likely to do better with those alternatives, calling into question the economic effectiveness of influencing their choices with government subsidies.

More affluent families used area rugs to hang over their windows like curtains, and still others covered their cupboards with these beautiful and intricate creations.