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New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

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09/20/2017

... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a study on teacher ...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

... the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the ...

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

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09/25/2017

... Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay program at the school. Highly qualified ...

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

... districts from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane ... has experienced before,” Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico’s education secretary, told staff...

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Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project

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10/03/2017

... to become better stewards of nature and the planet. With an ever increasing number of visitors - now over 100,000 ...

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... Georgetown-based think tank FutureEd. She recently wrote an analysis finding that 36 states plan to use chronic ... absenteeism to measure schools under ESSA, the federal education law. “In that regard, I don’...

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The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers

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11/03/2017

As part of a campaign to bring science and math outside the classroom, The Simons Foundation and Overdeck Family Foundation join forces to award five teachers $5,000 each for innovative projects.

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Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors

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12/01/2017

... which helped address changing dynamics in health, higher education , finance, social services, and culture. Laura ...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

... Rates for All Students Wabash College has received an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to ... that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education . The grant will build on the...

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Live Now From The Century Foundation: Diversity Matters: Getting Public School Choice Right

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05/15/2018

... day to hear from speakers including former secretary of education John King , professor Melissa Harris-Perry , ...

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Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce

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07/28/2014

... Of Women in Workforce As economists search for an explanation for why the percentage of women in the United States who are working or want to work has been declining, new evidence ... to offer paid maternity...

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Dyson Foundation Backs Service Week in the Mid-Hudson Region

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05/15/2015

... Omega Women’s Leadership Center, supports organizations working to positively impact the lives of women. The ...

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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

... City’s ‘Food Deserts’ When Sade Bennett started working in April at a small farm on the grounds of a New York ...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... is not only guided by principles of social justice, and working to address real societal problems, but one that is ... me as a former fundraiser and organizer for Project South, an organization whose work for...

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Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

The New England Foundation for the Arts has announced a three-year, $3.77 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the work of the National Theater Project.

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

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05/15/2017

... of neurons firing by the millions. But get everyone working together under the same roof with extensive time and ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists

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08/25/2017

... Foundation for the Visual Arts has provided support for an exhibition at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University ...

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... Sultan, the director of the Parrish Art Museum, said in an interview. Pollock and Krasner made their pitch by saying, ...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... ocean conservation and research. But we’ve also seen an apparent increasing interest in funding climate change ... work of Greg Johnson, who works for the NOAA running Argo, an array of nearly 4,000 floating...

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