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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

Charter- School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at ... with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time . But some backers of the model say they have “...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning It ... a new contract that includes raises. But, for the first time , it also requires contributions toward their health ... The deal also came...

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Hyde and Watson Foundation Supports New Green Roof at New Jersey School

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04/21/2017

... Watson Foundation Supports New Green Roof at New Jersey School Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) is a buzz with ... The Green Roof officially opened on Tuesday, April 18 in time to celebrate Earth Day at their...

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LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

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09/06/2017

Teachers sit at square tables in a college classroom here poring over primary and secondary sources about the civil rights icon Bayard Rustin.

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School Police: What’s Their Role? How Should They Treat Students?

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02/08/2017

School Police: What’s Their Role? How Should They Treat Students? In Minnesota, the St. Paul school district revamped its school policing program to focus less on enforcement and more ...

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The Wallace Foundation to Support Study of Whether and How Community Institutions Can Work Together on Education Reform

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03/18/2014

... funds study of whether and how community institutions can work together on education reform. New York (March 18, 2014) ... how community institutions in three mid-sized cities can work together to tackle...

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Here’s What Carmen Fariña’s Top Deputies Have on Their Plates This School Year

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09/21/2017

... Carmen Fariña’s Top Deputies Have on Their Plates This School Year As the person responsible for 1.1 million ... put during Fariña’s tenure. As Fariña’s fourth school year kicks off, here’s what her core group...

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Russell Sage Foundation Author/Grantee Edward Wolff Cited in NY Times Article About Record-setting Bull Market and Uneven Wealth Distribution

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08/23/2018

... Schularick, a professor of economics at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics in Germany who has written about the ...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches The ... where their ideas can cross-pollinate and where their work can bloom into new technologies and companies. But ... Institute of...

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Lincoln Center Partnership To Train and Place Arts Teachers In NYC Schools

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07/07/2014

... NYC public schools currently without adequate or any arts programs . Lincoln Center, CUNY’s Hunter College School of Education, the New York City Department of ...

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $10 Million to Four School Districts

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10/02/2013

... Opportunity by Design initiative, the grants will help the school districts (including the New York City Department of ... Corporation. “By taking on the challenge to ‘do school differently’ they will provide...

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Basic Science Funders – Including Simons Foundation - Ask, "How Do We Know if Our Giving is Working?"

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06/05/2017

... else. This is understandable, to an extent. But a lot of work —some of the most important and effective in the long ... That fuzziness can lead funders to either shrink from such work , or require grantees to...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation Columbia ... increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students. The largest single grant in the law school...

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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 fell...

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11/5/2014 - Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages? - Live stream Recording and Presentations

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11/2014

View the materials and live stream recording of the program, "Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages, and What is Philanthropy’s Role?"

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6/30/2015 - Understanding Trends in Global Peacefulness - Webinar Recording

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06/2015

View the recording of the webinar, " Understanding Trends in Global Peacefulness ." 6/30/2015 - Understanding Trends in Global Peacefulness - Webinar .....

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Rita Allen Foundation Funds Study to Understand Rejection of Climate Change

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04/27/2016

Climate Central, a Palmer Square-based nonprofit group devoted to studying climate change, has joined several other scientific groups in a study that seeks to understand why many members of the public reject the findings of the scientific community...

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