Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ...
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By Age 3, Inequality Is Clear: Rich Kids Attend School. Poor Kids Stay with a Grandparent
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... drop off 3- and 4-year-olds every weekday morning at New York City's most exclusive preschools. Tuition is more .....
After Months of Searching, De Blasio Promotes Acting Corrections Chief to Permanent Post
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... nearly a dozen candidates around the country for the post, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has opted to keep acting Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann as the permanent replacement for...
Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Influx of Wealth Upper-income earners have been growing as a share of this region’s population, according to the ... technology companies have moved to the region, bringing new wealth, but many of these...
FDA's Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely Expand Treatment
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... for the Medicaid program's criteria for treatment with a new class of highly effective but pricey drugs. The recent .....
NYPD: Serious Crime Drops at Record-Breaking Pace In September
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... Crime Drops at Record-Breaking Pace In September Crime in New York City fell at a record-breaking rate in September, ...
Policy Brief: NYC’s Looming Task of Property Tax Reform
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... states’ gun laws. Almost no one, however, denies that New York City’s property tax system is profoundly flawed. ...
Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... a CDFI made a bond offering. The bond markets are a whole new ocean of capital, with different faces and different ...
Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In ... who are educated and empathetic to girls’ needs, as well as safe and private...
Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... Reports last week that the number of home foreclosures in New York City had returned to levels last seen at the onset ... $3.5 billion worth of loans for one- to four-family homes as of the second quarter of...
Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream
Release Date:
01/05/2018
... Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), but also as an important first step toward enacting much-needed ... solutions to more people, in more countries, requires new ways of thinking. That’s how we’ll...
Learn About The Isivivana Centre, An Atlantic Philanthropies Grantee
Release Date:
01/22/2018
... . This short film tells the story of this vital and unique new space. Learn About The Isivivana Centre, An Atlantic ...
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports Research to Diagnose Hypoglycemia
Release Date:
05/25/2018
... are at risk of life-threatening drops in blood sugar known as hypoglycemia. Yosten’s lab studies g protein-coupled ... one of the most popular drug targets for those designing new medicines. Her team focuses...
14
Nov
2018
*Postponed* Getting Through the Front Door: A Campaign to Make Public Schools Accessible
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 -
9:00am to 11:00am
... by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York found that over 80% of the City’s elementary ... to launch a campaign to fix this problem. In June, New York City announced that it would...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Names Atlanta and Seattle First Winners American Cities Climate Challenge
Release Date:
09/21/2018
... for the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge. As Climate Challenge winners, the 20 cities will be accepted ... into a two-year acceleration program with powerful new resources and access to cutting-edge...
The Commonwealth Fund Finds that Middle-income Americans are Paying More for Health Insurance
Release Date:
12/10/2018
... Cost and price variations between areas aren't anything new . A recent Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement .....
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Feb
2021
Building Career Pathways for Youth in a Changing Landscape
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
The pandemic has impacted career pathway programs for New York City high school youth in terms of the specific industries and job opportunities as well as the training, work-based learning...
Betsy Edasery Appointed Philanthropy Analyst at TCC Group
Release Date:
08/22/2013
... for the public good. In 2011, she was selected as a National Field Fellow through South Asian Americans Leading Together as part of their “An America for All of Us” campaign ... for the Los Angeles County...
Legislator To Propose Federal Tax On Sugary Drinks
Release Date:
06/06/2014
... researchers and scientists, public health officials, foundation executives, and community activists. Discussions ... effective strategies to reduce soda-related diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart...
Life and Work of Robert Rauschenberg Profiled in NYTimes
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... his side, one of many he collected. Since 2012, the Foundation has converted the homes and studio on Captiva into ... people across cultural lines. You could argue that the Foundation is creating, in a social...