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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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Goldman Sachs, Pritzker Group to Invest $7 Million in Utah School District

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08/14/2013

... of an early-childhood program in Salt Lake City's Granite School District through a social impact bond. An unusual partnership involving Goldman Sachs, a school district in Utah, and several community...

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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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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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United Way of New York City

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

... Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform The allegations sound like a ... nightmare. Roughly two dozen children at New York City schools were hit, kicked, and bullied by...

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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 .....

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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 Symposium Independent charter schools view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one ...

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent ... an extra $705 per student — far more than any other school district in the country. More than two-thirds of ... created in 2007 to support reform...

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Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans

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06/01/2018

Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans The 2018 Perceptions of Public ... 700 residents, including 450 parents of public and private school students. The poll found the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors?

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09/28/2017

After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors? ... that two students had been stabbed inside a Bronx high school on Wednesday, the parents of several students in the ... need to do something about...

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Children, Youth and Families

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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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 ... will enable 50,925 kids in 153 schools and out of school time youth...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

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09/16/2015

The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration Today, the options for ... to escape racially isolated, high-poverty, poor-performing school districts are very limited—a major...

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