As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... executive order weakens the National Environmental Policy Act and cancels a federal standard that protects new ...
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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... University of Michigan professor of education, public policy , and economics Sue Dynarski in 2015. “In urban ...
De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... discriminatory practices and the implementation of a fair policy of paid leave which protects teachers’ rights to ...
Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... of America (GSA) and serves as director of the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging at the University of South ...
Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Attacks on women and gender identity have been central to the policies coming out of the Trump White House. To respond effectively, the philanthropic sector, too, must make gender justice, in addition to economic and racial justice, a core principle.
De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Even as New York City’s schools opened their doors for the new year this month, the clock was ticking on the future of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s boldest education initiative.
A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... said Tom Angotti, an emeritus professor at the Urban Policy and Planning department of Hunter College. “But ...
U.S. Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Accounts, Search Histories
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... of a new tracking system set to roll out next month. The policy applies to not just immigration applicants, but also ...
Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... experts and advocates that shaped White House education policy ... Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say ...
Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Sweep of Sanctuary Cities
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Federal agents arrested 498 people from 42 countries in a four-day nationwide operation targeting cities that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement said give sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes.
Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years
Release Date:
10/05/2017
At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter Susan Edelman sent an intriguing public records request to the city’s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of Information [sic], I request all e-mail communications since Dec. 30, 2013...
NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... proposals could be approved by the Panel for Educational Policy at its Nov. 28 meeting. She has argued that there is ...
William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education
Release Date:
10/26/2017
... outcomes and how to better use research to influence policy , Gamoran said. His lecture described the ...
‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism
Release Date:
12/08/2017
The Mellon Lecture Series, which will continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship to better understand and...
Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”
Release Date:
12/20/2017
... answer them, and then shares what it learns to inform policy and practice. The aim is not only to help grantees , ...
Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations
Release Date:
01/22/2018
Meet a couple separated by thousands of miles and America’s new refugee policies.
Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners
Release Date:
03/23/2018
... in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new policy , announced Thursday, prohibits the sale of firearms to ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds 20 Years of Sky Observations
Release Date:
05/11/2018
... and all images are open access under the SDSS's Image Use Policy .... Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds 20 Years of .....
Rockefeller Foundation, FAO Supporting Africa to Halve Food Loss
Release Date:
06/21/2018
Food that ‘disappears' from the food chain after harvest owing to spoilage could feed an estimated 48 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa. A project by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the African Union and The Rockefeller Foundation...
Jamie Merisotis Becomes Council on Foundations' Board Chair
Release Date:
05/14/2019
... Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Higher Education Policy , and as executive director of a bipartisan national ...