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City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City

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10/04/2017

City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City The city will construct a new high school with room for nearly 1,000 students in Dutch Kills, according to the Department of Education. The new ...

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Wallace Foundation Gives $7M to Albany State Leadership Program for School Administrators

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11/15/2016

... Gives $7M to Albany State Leadership Program for School Administrators The Dougherty County School System is a step closer to getting aspiring principals ... program for college students interested in becoming...

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Advisory Board Picked to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward

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07/17/2014

Advisory Board Picked to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward As part of his promise launch 100 community schools by 2018--including the first 40 in partnership with ... advisory board to help implement the...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools : Watchdog More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools , according to a new...

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Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All

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11/03/2022

Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All By: Julia McCarthy and Bronwyn Starr, ... go to school hungry. Since September, approximately 2,000 schools serving more than 700...

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New York Health Foundation

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools Last fall, a disturbing video took over the Internet: a White school safety officer at Spring Valley High School in ... extreme,...

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After-School Enrollment Up, but Still Shy of Lofty de Blasio Goals

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01/16/2015

After- School Enrollment Up, but Still Shy of Lofty de Blasio Goals ... Blasio administration managed to boost enrollment in after- school programs for middle-schoolers this year — but still ... reached “121...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants 'Hamilton' Tix to Bronx Theatre High School Students

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04/07/2016

... a half-hour with about 40 students at Bronx Theatre High School . On April 13, they will be among the first of 20,000 New York City public- school students given access to $10 ‘Hamilton’ ... which are hard to...

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How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color

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01/12/2017

... other girls of color disproportionately experience harsh school discipline than their peers. According to the most ... approaches to conflict often push Black girls out of school and into the juvenile justice...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System

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09/26/2017

City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System City schools pay more for many basic classroom goods than they ... purchasing system set up by education officials. Every school must...

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Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic

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04/06/2017

Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic The decision by Donald ... was a reminder, if any was needed, that proponents of school diversity need to look beyond...

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Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools The New York State Board of Regents on Monday ... will implement the federal law, including how individual schools will be evaluated and identified for...

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Some NYC K-12 Schools Cross $50,000-a-Year Mark

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09/19/2017

Some NYC K-12 Schools Cross $50,000-a-Year Mark Five years ago, parents ... gulped when the price for attending some private K-12 schools in New York City hit $40,000 a year. Now, a few have ... they have become...

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New App Helps Students Select NYC Public High Schools

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09/21/2017

New App Helps Students Select NYC Public High Schools As New York City students gear up to apply to public high schools for next fall, a free mobile app aims to steer ... them navigate a complex admissions process...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools

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08/22/2018

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools Playworks , the leading national nonprofit leveraging ... the investment, $1,913,587 will enable 50,925 kids in 153 schools and out of ...

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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For School Leaders

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10/26/2015

Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For School Leaders After more than a year of deliberations, a set of professional standards for education school leaders are set to head out the door. The...

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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators A science teacher ... who have been teaching math or science in city high schools for at least five years, were chosen by a panel of ... winners...

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In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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09/18/2017

... These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools In the eve of her 92nd birthday, Lottie Raukx ... of neuropathy slow down her fight for Harlem’s public schools . Armed with a petition to...

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Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More

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01/25/2016

Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools , but Critics Want More Mayor Bill de Blasio is ... in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently well below what they...

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