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One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos

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09/06/2017

... School in The Face of DACA Chaos Denisse Rojas, a third- year medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ... permitted to attend college and work in the U.S. for two- year periods without fear of...

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Immigration

A Top State Education Policymaker Benefited From Integration. Now, He Wants To Bring It Back.

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09/06/2017

If Vice Chancellor Andrew Brown had been born a few years earlier, his schooling — and possibly his life — could have been very different.

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New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students

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09/07/2017

... charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year , Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on ... of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school. The new school year begins on Thursday. “This is about...

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Food Systems

Record Level of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight

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09/14/2017

... openings at the end of July, up by nearly 200,000 from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Openings ...

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Workforce Development

Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

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09/19/2017

... the field. Health reporter Erin Billups has the story. 16- year -old Scott West got a concussion playing football his freshman year in High School. "I went to go make a tackle and I had a .....

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New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

... share of Americans who moved to a different residence last year fell to its lowest point in the past decade, according ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... earned an 8.1 percent return for its most recent fiscal year . The endowment’s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, ... overcome.” That return significantly trails the mean one- year return of 12.7 percent for...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

... Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three- year deal with the Buffalo Council of Supervisors and ...

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At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records

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09/21/2017

... officers. The issue reached a boiling point last year when the Police Department stopped providing ... known by the clause 50-a. A state appellate court this year upheld the de Blasio administration’s...

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Justice Reform

Trump Plans 45,000 Limit on Refugees Admitted to U.S.

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09/27/2017

... plans to cap refugee admissions at 45,000 over the next year , according to current and former government officials ... is the lowest any White House has sought since 1980, the year legislation was enacted...

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Immigration

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

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10/03/2017

... of the Department of Environmental Protection, more than a year after the last permanent head left. Sapienza, a ...

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Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?

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10/04/2017

... How much sleep do you get each night during the school year ? Are you rested in the morning before school? If so, ... be done to ensure you get more sleep during the school year ? In “The Economic Case for...

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Former Microsoft CEO and Wife Pledge $60 Million to Fight Social Inequality

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10/05/2017

... through the Ballmer Group, a grant maker they set up last year to devote their nearly $34 billion fortune to fight ...

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Economic Security

Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?

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10/10/2017

... one- to four-family homes as of the second quarter of this year , a 4% increase over last year . Late payments on such loans, a bellwether for mortgages ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Google Pledges $1 Billion to Fund Non-Profit Education

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10/13/2017

Google says over the next five years it will spend $1 billion on nonprofit organizations helping to raise education levels around the world and commit its employees to a million hours of volunteer work doing the same.

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Ford Foundation and Citi Fund Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture $22.3 Million Renovation

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10/17/2017

... reopening of several renovated spaces after a nearly two- year , $22.3 million renovation funded funded by the Ford ...

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The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

... Recipients The Art for Justice Fund, launched earlier this year with a $100 million donation from philanthropist Agnes ... and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is a five- year initiative that uniquely...

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Arts

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How this Slogan Has Defined Philanthropy for the Buffets and the NoVo Foundation

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12/12/2017

... are co-chairs of NoVo. They pay themselves a dollar a year . The silver spoon of privilege has not corroded the ... instincts. They have good radar. Warren Buffett’s 59- year -old youngest son shared a...

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William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research

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05/04/2018

The foundation will award grants of up to $600,000 over two or three years in support of research designed to build, test, and increase understanding of approaches to reducing inequality in youth outcomes on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic...

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