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Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit

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06/17/2014

n the wake of last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York’s teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state’s tenure laws and possibly many other teacher protections.

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Jonas Center Support For Online Tutorials Helps Healthcare Students

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06/17/2014

The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, Khan Academy and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) are providing online tutorials to supplement the learning of healthcare students, practitioners and patients worldwide.

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NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

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06/17/2014

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the hallmarks of New York City’s gifted programs, the immensely popular classes and schools that draw high achievers but have been criticized as shutting out low-income children.

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Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy

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06/17/2014

A new light rail line that connects the downtowns of Saint Paul and Minneapolis for the first time in decades is being hailed by the Ford Foundation as an example of how strategic public investments in transit and transit-oriented development can...

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Brooklyn Public Library Receives $400,000 From The New York Life Foundation

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06/16/2014

Brooklyn Public Library has received a two year, $400,000 grant from the New York Life Foundation to expand its Brooklyn Connections program.

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Goldman Sachs: Women Are the Smartest Investment We Can Make

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06/16/2014

"Womenomics" became the impetus behind one of Goldman Sachs’ most powerful investments, "10,000 Women."

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Gender Justice

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Goldman Sachs

What Inequality Deniers Have In Common With Climate Change Skeptics

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06/16/2014

Ford Foundation President Darren Walker writes in an op-ed that recent attempts to discredit Thomas Piketty's research into income inequality remind him of earlier efforts to deny that climate change is a real threat.

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Funders Teaming Up to Strengthen Voices of LGBTQ People of Color

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06/16/2014

The Ford Foundation is teaming with the Arcus Foundation and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, along with an anonymous donor, to create the first LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund to support new voices and leaders in communities of color.

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

The Simons Foundation has given the University of Hawaii at Manoa $40 million—the largest gift of its kind the university has ever received—for marine life research.

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United Way To Receive $52 Million Over Four Years To Help Turn New York City Schools Into Services Hubs

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06/16/2014

NYC will pass a state grant for delinquency prevention worth $13 million a year for four years to the United Way of New York City, which will help identify about 40 schools and nonprofit partners that can team up in high-poverty areas this fall.

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