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What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

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09/27/2017

What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools? The Walton Family Foundation ... . . What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools? .....

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Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?

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10/04/2017

Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success? How much sleep do you get each night during the school year? Are you rested in the morning before school ? If ... more sleep during the...

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $10 Million to Four School Districts

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10/02/2013

... Opportunity by Design initiative, the grants will help the school districts (including the New York City Department of ... National Program, and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation. “By taking...

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NY Life Foundation Supports Social- Emotional Learning In Middle Schools

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10/05/2016

... help to strengthen social-emotional learning in middle school students attending high-poverty schools. ... and growth mindset, to name a few, and they are necessary for success throughout life—be it in the...

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Here’s What Carmen Fariña’s Top Deputies Have on Their Plates This School Year

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09/21/2017

... Carmen Fariña’s Top Deputies Have on Their Plates This School Year As the person responsible for 1.1 million students, 75,000 teachers and 1,800 schools, ... put during Fariña’s tenure. As Fariña’s fourth...

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City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City

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10/04/2017

City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City The city will construct a new high school with room for nearly 1,000 students in Dutch Kills, according to the ... a four-story building...

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Four charter schools will be launched under initiative started by Mayor Bloomberg

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03/05/2013

The state Education Department has received applications to open the schools as part of the mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative, which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Open Society Foundations.

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Goldman Sachs, Pritzker Group to Invest $7 Million in Utah School District

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08/14/2013

... of an early-childhood program in Salt Lake City's Granite School District through a social impact bond. An unusual partnership involving Goldman Sachs, a school district in Utah, and several community...

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Wallace Foundation Gives $7M to Albany State Leadership Program for School Administrators

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11/15/2016

... Foundation Gives $7M to Albany State Leadership Program for School Administrators The Dougherty County School System is a ... from the Wallace Foundation to create a leadership program...

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School Police: What’s Their Role? How Should They Treat Students?

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02/08/2017

School Police: What’s Their Role? How Should They Treat Students? In Minnesota, the St. Paul school district revamped its school policing program to focus less on enforcement and more ...

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Advisory Board Picked to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward

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07/17/2014

As part of his promise launch 100 community schools by 2018--including the first 40 in partnership with the United Way of New York City--Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a 50-member advisory board to help implement the plan.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

... Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform The allegations sound like a parent’s nightmare. Roughly two dozen children at New York City schools were hit, kicked, and bullied...

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

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09/21/2017

... Watchdog More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a ... expected to be phased out entirely, it may further strain school buildings, the report...

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

Charter- School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium Independent charter schools view themselves as ... to bigger networks who sometimes attract headlines for allegedly...

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... in Recent Years Washington, D.C., became a magnet for philanthropy after 2007, when former mayor Adrian Fenty ... foundations, according to an analysis by two professors at Michigan State University of grants...

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Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans

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06/01/2018

Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans The 2018 Perceptions of ... 700 residents, including 450 parents of public and private school students. The poll found the...

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Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All

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11/03/2022

Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All By: Julia McCarthy and Bronwyn Starr, ... bills that would ensure no child goes hungry when at school...

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After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors?

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09/28/2017

After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors? ... elementary school housed in the same building voiced anger at a lack of metal detectors there and demanded action from Mayor...

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Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design

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03/25/2013

This initial commitment to support district-based school design work uses the principles in a new Carnegie ... new report, Opportunity by Design: New High School Models for Student Success, that...

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