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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

... is one sign of how little the country has managed to do to close racial gaps. Unemployment rates among black workers ... joblessness for black workers has led policy makers to accept it is as...

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Economic Security

With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for Students and Teachers

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09/06/2017

With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for ... Trump White House announced on Tuesday that it would move to rescind protections for young undocumented immigrants, New ... religious...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make...

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Gender Justice

Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... research,” wrote University of Michigan professor of education , public policy, and economics Sue Dynarski in 2015. ... low-achieving, poor and nonwhite, charter schools tend to do better than other public...

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De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave

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09/13/2017

De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave The New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not offer paid parental leave for union ... the critical role a teacher plays in providing a...

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Gender Justice

In New Memoir, Eva Moskowitz Offers a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation

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09/18/2017

... a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation For followers of the New York City education wars, Eva Moskowitz’s new book is a juicy ... Of her own ambitions, she says she’...

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Appointments & Transitions

Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board Andrus Family Fund appoints Edgar Villanueva, ... Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education , to its board. For...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) today announced that, since its launch ... and programs around the...

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Health

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Kiva City Launches in Washington, D.C.

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01/11/2013

... owners in the greater Washington, D.C., area with access to crowdfunded microloans. A new partnership between Capital ... provide small business owners in the D.C. region access to capital through Kiva’s...

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Economic Security

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

... have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to state and local governments looking to develop "pay-for-success"...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

... Some A team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a new neighborhood of residential towers and office ... in the East River as part of a counter-intuitive plan to make the city more flood...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Weinberg Foundation Launches Workforce Leadership Academy in Baltimore

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06/08/2015

... development service field. The WSSA curriculum is designed to help senior professionals improve their skills and develop a strategic perspective to better meet the needs of low-income...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Community Development

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NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

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06/23/2016

NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American ... communities. Through a request-for-proposals process to be launched soon, First Nations will provide $20,000 ... These assessments...

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Food Systems

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Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT

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09/27/2016

... The intensive summer program, which meets Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., combines more than 300 hours of instruction in ...

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Gender Justice

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series Continues

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02/10/2017

... development through epigenetic variation. Offered free to the public to enhance the understanding of the biology of the mind and ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Health

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Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism

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05/25/2017

... into differences in brain development that may predispose to schizophrenia or autism.” . . . Simons-Funded Research ...

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Health

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment Mayor de Blasio ... bill signing. . . Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

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09/21/2017

... and deliberate sabotage by predatory developers looking to cash-in. As a pillar of the city’s most critical ... housing supply faces threats including conversion to market-rate housing and a lack of upkeep...

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