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New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass

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09/13/2017

New York’ s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a ... prospective teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state’ s top education policy makers are lowering the score needed ... move could open the...

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Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive

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09/14/2017

... be posted in the 10 Suffolk County schools believed to have the highest incidents of gang-related activity. Suffolk ...

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

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09/14/2017

... waterways are vulnerable to storms. We also know what we have to do to protect them from flood damage. Yet the work ...

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A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle

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09/14/2017

... and he didn’t solve it.” “People thought that I must have been cursed,” the father of nine added, clutching his ...

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The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry

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09/15/2017

The Fate of NYC’ s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry Recently ... firing of 24 undocumented immigrants at New York City’ s artisanal Tom Cat Bakery last spring. Bearing signs in ... brought to the...

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Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men

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09/15/2017

... in San Francisco, the plaintiffs say Google knew or should have known about the pay disparity between men and women at ...

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In Year Three Of New York City’s Massive School Turnaround Program, The Big Question Is: What’s Next?

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09/18/2017

In Year Three Of New York City’ s Massive School Turnaround Program, The Big Question Is: What’ s Next? In a recent Tuesday morning, Schools Chancellor ... investments the city has made in dozens of schools that...

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

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09/18/2017

... or numbness of neuropathy slow down her fight for Harlem’ s public schools. Armed with a petition to demand that the education department staff her neighborhood’ s school with librarians — as it’ s...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... return for its most recent fiscal year. The endowment’ s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was ... nonprofit organizations. And while many of the nation’ s largest endowments have...

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JCOPE Commissioners Again Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors

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09/21/2017

... debate, a majority of the commissioners of the state’ s lobbying and ethics watchdog panel again found on Tuesday ... the commissioners of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics have ruled that the NYCLU must...

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Seven Elements of A Results-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility Program

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09/21/2017

... Beyond generating profit and employing people, businesses have the ability to be the leading drivers of change by ...

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

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09/25/2017

... as scrappy upstarts 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 “lost the narrative” to bigger networks who ...

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Seven Elements of a Results-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility Program

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09/26/2017

... Beyond generating profit and employing people, businesses have the ability to be the leading drivers of change by ...

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De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule

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09/28/2017

De Blasio’ s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule Nearly ... only 48 of the 550 units promised under those contracts have come to fruition, a delay that advocates say stems from the administration’...

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Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence

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09/28/2017

... her residency, she will be integrated into Atlantic’ s day-to-day operations and will receive a full production of ... is awarded annually to early-career playwrights who have not yet received an Off-Broadway...

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‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

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10/02/2017

... Help Reduce Violence in New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim to resolve ... nonprofit Cure Violence in 2010, drawing funds from the U. S . Department of Justice. East New York and the...

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What Business Can Learn From Buddhism

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10/02/2017

... Business Can Learn From Buddhism Millennials, we are told, have a different attitude to work than their elders. They ...

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12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

... increases the impact severe storms like Superstorm Sandy have on New York, the city’ s architects are designing buildings that are more resilient than even building codes require. There’ s...

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De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

... after a medical leave. “When I sign things, I guess it’ s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 years ago with the agency that runs the city’ s water and...

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Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... Detention Center would be an ideal first step and we have already started to take a hard look at this site to ...

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