More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. Despite the ...
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States Team Up To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/21/2017
States Team Up To Fight Climate Change A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to ... this year, President Donald Trump said he would withdraw from the Paris agreement in its...
New App Helps Students Select NYC Public High Schools
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... gear up to apply to public high schools for next fall, a free mobile app aims to steer disadvantaged students away from low-performing choices. Researchers say many low-income ... students apply to...
JCOPE Commissioners Again Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors After a lengthy debate, a majority of the commissioners of the ... that the NYCLU must disclose its donors, despite arguments from the free...
What’s The [Data] Point? 77,651, with the City Housing Commissioner
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... For this episode of the podcast, we bring you excerpts of a speech the city 039 ;s housing commissioner, Maria Torres-Springer, gave at a Citizens Budget Commission event on Wednesday,...
Voters Pick Women Over Men in Primary for All Six Brooklyn Judicial Seats
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Voters Pick Women Over Men in Primary for All Six Brooklyn Judicial Seats During the ... or judicial screening panel approvals. Ignoring a bitter feud playing out between the Kings County Democratic ... own...
Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Repeal Bill Is Unworkable As Republicans rush toward a precipitous vote on the Graham-Cassidy repeal-and-replace ... Medicaid expansions and turn the money over to the states in block grants. By 2026, the bill...
Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes John Arnold, who taught a course at Stanford in the early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask...
Cuomo Says Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding Gov. Cuomo said a special session of the state Legislature may be needed if ... already-adopted budget. “If we lose $2 billion on...
Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... Report Shows Hurricane Sandy victims have dropped out in droves from the city’s Build It Back recovery program, new data ... by City Controller Scott Stringer found steep declines in many of...
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Release Date:
09/26/2017
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege? Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or education, has ... to 55 are married,...
Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review academic research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the program, launched...
Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State?
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State? Your lawyer might agree with Miss Manners that ... States and cities across the U.S. are banning employers from asking prospective staff about salary history, ...
Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial elite, Jerry Yang, a ...
New MIF/Hewlett Foundation Webinars Explore How Funders Can Fight Misinformation
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... is at the forefront of the battle to address it. From the recent prototype fund sponsored by the Knight and ... Knight Foundations’ collaboration with Democracy Fund in support of CUNY’s News Integrity...
City to Overhaul 11 More Parks on Restoration Program As Its Cost Grows to $318 Million
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... to $318 Million Eleven more parks will be fixed up under a city program — and the initiative 039 ;s cost has jumped by ... parks under the Community Parks Initiative, up from $285 million...
Cuomo Warns NY House Republicans
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... Cuomo criticized on Wednesday Republican House members from New York who have supported broad changes to the ... get you,” Cuomo said during an unrelated news conference in New York City. “If you look at the...
MTA May Cut Back On $836M Emergency Subway Repair Work If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up The big subway fix may be in a bit of a fix. An ambitious MTA plan to rescue the subway from collapse may get scaled back for lack of funding,...
Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... of preserving broadcast television news. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vanderbilt will host ...
Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has received a two-year grant from Ford Foundation to support the expansion of its ... with mentors and strengthen immigrant artist communities in...