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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Milbank Memorial Fund Convenes Health Policy Leaders to Create A Bipartisan Agenda for New Administration

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01/19/2017

... A Bipartisan Agenda for New Administration The common goal of health policy leaders at the level of state government in the United States is promoting the health and well-being of all...

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Funded by Teagle Foundation, Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum

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01/26/2017

... Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum Based on hundreds of interviews with faculty members, students and alumni at ... career diplomats or bankers, alumni point to...

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Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform

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02/16/2017

... History Will Call Republican Health Reform In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare...

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New ... able to offer affordable, high-quality performance and education programming with support fromSeason Sponsors Con Edison, Bank of...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Arts

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Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs

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04/14/2017

... needs new tools for the timely measurement and monitoring of technology, jobs and skills to cope with the advance of artificial intelligence and automation, an expert panel ... skills and tasks involved in...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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A Q&A with Sampriti Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO

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07/18/2017

... Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO We are on the cusp of philanthropy’s next big wave. The charitable sector is ... their charitable giving like never before. At the center of this profound shift is Arabella...

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans ... Massachusetts. The loan servicer, the Pennsylvania Higher...

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Suspensions, Evaluations And The Absent Teacher Reserve: What A New Union Boss Has On His Mind

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08/31/2017

... it done. This September, Cannizzaro will become president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, the union that ... 6,000 school principals, assistant principals and other education...

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Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up

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09/05/2017

... is done with health care. On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education , Labor and Pensions Committee kicks off the first of four scheduled hearings this month examining the individual health care market with the...

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After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

... Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty ... few months have been marked by friction between the State Education Department and SUNY,...

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New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects

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09/05/2017

... infrastructure to boost resilience through conservation education , new stormwater management systems and other green ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... Treating Mental Health ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four ... and parents and children, which means this affects all of us. It drives the economy: $14...

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this ... when the city bused 2,920. The spike comes in the midst of a citywide surge in student...

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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

... year, a new research paper has found. In all, 28.3 percent of teachers in traditional schools, compared with 10.3 ... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

... for the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the Buffalo Council of Supervisors and Administrators, the union...

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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

... at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G That's gotta hurt. Nearly two dozen teachers at ... Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials...

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

... from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and ... a unique, difficult and unprecedented situation that none of us has experienced before,”...

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

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10/03/2017

... with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project The mission of Reeves-Reed Arboretum is to engage, educate, and enrich the lives of visitors to become better stewards of nature and the planet...

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Community Development

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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

... rise, to want to game the system,” said Phyllis Jordan of the Georgetown-based think tank FutureEd. She recently ... absenteeism to measure schools under ESSA, the federal education law. “In that regard, I don...

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