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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... Based on nine case studies of implementation efforts in public schools in Cambridge, ...

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The Century Foundation

NYSHealth Foundation Releases New Survey Results for How People Find and Use Health Care Price Information

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04/07/2017

... do Americans find and use this information? Conducted by Public Agenda, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson ... offer new data that can contribute to current health care policy debates... NYSHealth...

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New York Health Foundation

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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

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04/17/2017

... members. This conversation features Talia DeRogatis, Public Policy and Community Engagement Liaison & Gabriella Marrero, ...

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Community Development

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New York Foundation

Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

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06/06/2017

... in the United States working through litigation, public policy advocacy, and education to secure legally recognized ...

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Animal Welfare

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Arcus Foundation

NoVo Foundation

NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast

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06/30/2017

... and Incarceration Reform, and Alison Wilkey director of public policy at the Prisoner Reentry Institute. NY Women's .....

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

... she helped transform TCF into a stronger and more dynamic public policy presence, recruiting new fellows, stabilizing the ...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... to violent. The goal is to improve relations with the public and reduce use of jails and emergency rooms for people ... have learned to de-escalate situations, and there is no policy requiring that a trained...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... team and partners at the Hechinger Report, American Public Media and Inside Higher Ed. To dig into the student ... on August 24 at 1 p.m. EDT with financial aid officers, policy experts and other key...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017

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08/30/2017

... for a $15 minimum wage and a 12-week paid family leave policy . This year, the governor included a measure in the ... a union-backed “Buy American” law. And for unionized public sector workers, the recovering...

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Workforce Development

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

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09/11/2017

... the State Legislature reauthorized mayoral control of the public school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration quietly announced a policy reversal: In the coming year, schools will once again ...

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As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities

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09/12/2017

... executive order weakens the National Environmental Policy Act and cancels a federal standard that protects new ... and big corporations — the “private” half of the public -private partnerships that will...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site

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09/19/2017

... of the mayor’s broader affordable housing vision of a public -private partnership with the real estate ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

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09/19/2017

... as opponents of the program, led by Mr. Trump’s chief policy adviser, Stephen Miller, assert that continuing to ... United States, paying more in taxes than they consume in public benefits, and filling jobs in...

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Immigration

Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... Care for $3.75 billion said it will try to continue a policy for at least a year of not providing contraceptive and ...

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Gender Justice

In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

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09/28/2017

... policies and banned trans people from using the public bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. HB ...

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Gender Justice

Ms. Foundation Seeks to Increase Traction for Childcare Amongst Funders

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10/03/2017

... have stepped in to fill the gap. In 2015, the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive-leaning think tank, found ... care costs more on average than in-state tuition at a public university. Access to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education

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10/26/2017

... The percentage of English language learners in American public schools has increased in all but 15 states since 2004. ... outcomes and how to better use research to influence policy , Gamoran said. His lecture...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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01/22/2018

... for PBS NewsHour Weekend, produced in partnership with public radio station WNYC , correspondent Matt Katz has the ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Ninth Annual Fiscal Summit Will Outline Urgent Need for Fiscal Reset following Recent Tax and Spending Legislation

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05/01/2018

... midterm elections get underway within a rapidly changing policy environment, America's unsustainable fiscal condition ... Absent a change in course, we will confront fewer public and private investments,...

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