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NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

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06/17/2014

NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the ... gifted programs, the immensely popular classes and schools...

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Robertson Foundation Gifts $25M to Success Academy Charter School Network

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04/13/2016

Robertson Foundation Gifts $25M to Success Academy Charter School Network Success Academy, the high-performing but polarizing charter school network, said on Tuesday that it had received a $25 ... gift would help...

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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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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new ... the wild card — aimed at measuring "student success...

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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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Target Hands Decision on $5-Million Schools Gift to Online Voters

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08/15/2013

... how it will distribute $5 million in donations to public schools through its “Give With Target” campaign. (Target ... how it will distribute $5-million in donations to public schools , the first time the store...

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Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic

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04/21/2016

Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic The ... nature” of conversations today about how to integrate schools . Speaking at a Century Foundation panel on Tuesday to...

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Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms

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12/01/2016

Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms A message from PNY President ... has often centered on young men’s experiences in the school -to-prison pipeline. In fact, the racial disparity is .....

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Foundations Invest Nearly $2 Million to Improve New York City Schools

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09/10/2014

... City Foundations Invest Nearly $2 Million to Improve Local Schools A new consortium of New York City-based ... years. Since its founding in 2008 at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human...

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Ford Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations

Release Date:

05/12/2015

New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations The Fund for Public Schools , the nonprofit organization that former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellors built into a...

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Rockefeller’s Sarah Geisenheimer to Step in for Chen at Fund for Public Schools

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... Sarah Geisenheimer to Step in for Chen at Fund for Public Schools Sarah Geisenheimer, of the Rockefeller Foundation, ... that Sarah will do a great job leading the Fund for Public Schools on an interim basis...

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Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs

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02/17/2016

Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of- School -Time Programs The Wallace-commissioned Out-of- School -Time (OST) Cost Calculator is an online tool designed ... . . . Wallace Updates Popular Cost...

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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 ... April 18 in time to celebrate Earth Day at their Upper School campus on Lloyd Road. The...

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Morgan Stanley Foundation to Fund Houston Food Bank School Pantry Program

Release Date:

05/31/2019

Morgan Stanley Foundation to Fund Houston Food Bank School Pantry Program Houston Food Bank today announced ... grant from the Morgan Stanley Foundation to fund its School Pantry program, which provides a readily...

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Food Systems

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools At a time when the public and private sectors ... for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools ...

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Technology

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

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09/06/2017

LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools . There's an Effort to Change That Teachers sit at ... adopted him. . . LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools . There's an Effort to Change That .....

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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

Release Date:

11/12/2015

Communities in Schools : Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace ... support a strategy of doing less? At Communities In Schools , we struggled with those questions as we went through ... implementation at a...

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AT&T Foundation

14 Nov 2018

Postponed Getting Through the Front Door: A Campaign to Make Public Schools Accessible

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... of New York found that over 80% of the City’s elementary schools were not fully accessible. The situation in middle and high schools was even worse. These findings galvanized ... $150 million over the next...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

NYCT Funding Pilot Program for In-school STI Testing

Release Date:

10/17/2014

NYCT Funding Pilot Program for In- school STI Testing At some point in their lives, most ... associated with STIs.... NYCT Funding Pilot Program for In- school STI Testing ...

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Health

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PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School

Release Date:

02/10/2015

PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School President Obama’s November report on Women and ... PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School ...