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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

... school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. ... many families feel the situation is getting worse as existing seats are being chipped away...

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How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

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09/26/2017

... on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You Was the commute on New York City’s subway this month worse than last month? ... a new system for both tracking delays on the subway as well as...

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Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence

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09/28/2017

... Amy Staats will be the 2017–2018 playwright-in-residence as well as the lineup for its upcoming Amplified Reading Series and two new commissions. Actor and playwright Staats’ plays include ...

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12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

... Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms As sea level rise increases the impact severe storms like Superstorm Sandy have on New York, the city’s architects are designing buildings ... the...

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Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools

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10/04/2017

... Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 ...

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

... CEO Eva Moskowitz has more in common with her longtime foe New York Mayor Bill de Blasio than you might think, she told ... is a level of injustice in the city, around the state of New York, around the country...

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Four Communities Are to Receive Smart Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces

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10/05/2017

... Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces Four communities in Western New York will receive up to $2.5 million in state funding ... assets and help dress up their streetscapes to attract new businesses, residents and...

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City Council Members Still Navigating Outside Income Divestment Ahead of Deadline

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10/05/2017

... City Council members, two of whom voted against the new restrictions, continue to be involved in their private ... each is still in the process of figuring out divestment as mandated by the new...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

... Digital Literacy, Workforce Development Google announced new online tools and more than $1 billion in funding for ... combat that problem, Pichai announced Grow with Google, a new initiative and online...

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ABNY Releases The Second Season of ABNY Talks

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01/23/2018

... Talks , an education series delivered by experts to give New Yorkers insight into how and why policy decisions get ... civic issues from experts and leaders who are changing New York. The City Budget & How...

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Making Measures Work For You: Outcomes and Evaluation

... Hasty assumptions or over-confidence in the idea that program impacts can be translated into hard data can skew not ... tensions that drive the debate about outcomes measurement, as well as common questions about its potential risks and rewards. ...

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CECP Announces 2013 Excellence Awards in Corporate Philanthropy

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02/26/2013

... Challenge, a three-year, $50 million competitive grant program to make cities around the world smarter and more ...

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Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A (Missed?) Philanthropic Opportunity

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03/2015

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has released the second report in their "Smashing Silos in Philanthropy" series.

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Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India

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03/24/2015

... and communities. This will be achieved through a Water.org program , WaterCredit, which enables people in need to access ...

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1/7/2016 - "Powerful Resource or Unhealthy Distraction? The Ongoing Debate about Young People and Technology" - Live Stream Recording & Resources

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01/2016

View the live stream recording of the program " Powerful Resource or Unhealthy Distraction? The .....

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