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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

... practice essential legal skills as part of their clinical education ... Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From ...

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

... cuts to the nation’s most effective health, nutrition, education , and disability programs, eviscerating benefits ... women of color experience stark inequities. Compared with white women, women of color have...

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Gender Justice

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care

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08/24/2017

... expertise to create those conditions, beginning with educating the patient and family caregivers about the ...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration quietly announced a policy reversal: In the coming year, schools will once again be forced to hire teachers that no other school has wanted to hire.

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... Integration Plan for Lower East Side The New York City education department on Tuesday revealed a plan that ...

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

... was among the other industries that lost jobs, with 500. The top three industries that added jobs were: education and health services, with 1,700; health care and social assistance, ...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state, according to a report ...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... ticking on the future of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s boldest education initiative. His Renewal School program, which ...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... last spring by Liz Hallinan and Ashley Allen Carr, with a $500,000 grant from the Open Philanthropy Project, The ... conduct research, do regulatory and legal analysis and education , and connect farmers to...

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Food Systems

Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries are neglecting to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development...

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After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

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10/03/2017

... last week’s fatal stabbing at a school in the Bronx, the Education Department would focus its training for teachers on ...

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New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a Broadway Show

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10/10/2017

... See a Broadway Show The Broadway League has teamed up with the New York City Department of Education to launch the first year of Broadway Bridges, an ... tested earlier this year and officially launches this...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... City Hall on Thursday announced plans to expand its pre-K education program for 3-year-olds in six new neighborhoods ... full-day 3-K expansion comes in three phases, beginning with District 4, in East Harlem...

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... will have interactive content that confronts visitors with some of the nation's arduous past. The opening of the ... memorial and museum will be celebrated from April 26-29 with concerts from national...

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Social Justice

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

The report, "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was funded by The Clark Foundation, urges Mayor Bill de Blasio to make boosting community college graduation rates a key part of his second term agenda.

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation support a study that shows that facilitated classroom visits to an art museum have a measurable impact on key aspects of student learning.

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Arts

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Visual Culture Program on Caltech Campus

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12/14/2018

... interested in art and its potential for intersecting with science. The program, the first of its kind at Caltech, ... known for its support of the arts and humanities in higher education . The program, still in...

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UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

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05/20/2019

... for regional students. The DSCF launched in September 2014 with a $51 million Challenge Fund — $20 million from UJA’s endowment, together with significant funding from The AVI CHAI Foundation, The ... The fund...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Estée Lauder Companies and Others Partner for Indonesian Sustainable Palm Project

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05/28/2019

... Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) are partnering with the civil society organization Solidaridad to promote ... of palm oil and palm kernel oil. It offers continuous education and technical support on...

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