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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this year in...

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Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere

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09/11/2017

Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere Unemployment rates are down for New ... upstate had fewer jobs in 2016 than in 2011, according to a new report. New York...

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New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass

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09/13/2017

... Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass Just years after New York began ... door to more teachers of color, who have failed the exam in disproportionate numbers since the...

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‘Brooklyn Prime’ Campaign Aims To Bring Amazon Headquarters To NYC

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09/13/2017

... last week that is seeking proposals for siting a second headquarters has spurred cities across the country – from Austin to Boston to Buffalo and beyond – to pitch ... the contenders trying to woo the Seattle-...

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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

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09/13/2017

... on Food The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying ... price of care which drives nearly all disputes, from access to benefit levels to...

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Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

... Billionaire investor George Soros on Monday said a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa will become the new ... Mr. Soros, a billionaire investor and Hungarian refugee from the Holocaust,...

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NYS Health’s Event Recap: Reporting in the ‘Fake News’ Era: A Conversation With Health Reporter Charles Ornstein

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09/13/2017

NYS Health’s Event Recap: Reporting in the ‘Fake News’ Era: A Conversation With Health Reporter Charles Ornstein On ... unfiltered social media landscape; what they need and want from health care...

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Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’

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09/14/2017

... this week by the Board of Regents are “little more than a rebranding” of Common Core, a coalition of parent and ... Education said the new standards do little to move away from the test-based...

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Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive

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09/14/2017

... be going into schools to combat the problem. Cuomo during a Long Island appearance said “gang prevention officers” from the State Police will be posted in the 10 Suffolk County schools...

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

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09/14/2017

Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These When superstorm Sandy struck my home state of New York in 2012, it dealt a severe blow to communities...

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Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State

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09/14/2017

... recovery and support services to residents suffering from substance use disorders in underserved communities throughout New York City and Long ... The announcements were made at the grand opening of a...

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Record Level of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight

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09/14/2017

... of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight A record-high level of job openings might overstate tightness in the labor market. There were 6.17 million job openings at the end of July, up by nearly...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute

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09/14/2017

... computational methods. Located across the street from the Simons Foundation’s New York City headquarters, ...

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Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September

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09/18/2017

... nonpartisan budget analysts to fast-track consideration of a plan that would devolve federal health-care spending to states. The Congressional Budget Office is in the process of estimating the cost and...

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In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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09/18/2017

In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To ... down her fight for Harlem’s public schools. Armed with a petition to demand that the education department staff her ... it’s required to — she collected...

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Fund the People Toolkit

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09/2017

... funders, nonprofits, and others to maximize investments in the nonprofit workforce. Nonprofit people are nonprofit ... organizations invest in the nonprofit workforce as a strategy for improving the impact and sustainability of the ... dialogue on talent issues Resources: curated content from across the social sector Fund the People Toolkit ...

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Former Success Academy Lawyer Hoping to Start Own Charter Network Wants to ‘Take It To The Next Level’

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09/20/2017

... the former top lawyer for Success Academy, Emily Kim had a hand in almost every aspect of New York City’s largest and most controversial charter-school network — from negotiating lunch times...

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Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report

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09/20/2017

Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy is much different today from what it once was back when films like Spike Lee’s Do ... In the...

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New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

... Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story Americans aren’t moving. Or, rather, ... a different residence last year fell to its lowest point in the past decade...

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