Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights
Release Date:
04/19/2017
... through science and medicine. To be disbursed over four years , the largest contribution in PHR's thirty-year history .....
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Arcus and Novo Foundations' Global Trans Initiative Share U.S. Narratives
Release Date:
07/25/2017
... – U.S. Narrative from Arcus Foundation on Vimeo . Two years ago, the Arcus Foundation and NoVo Foundation announced ...
More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers
Release Date:
07/28/2017
... Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers Three years ago, just four cities affiliated with 100 Resilient ... local political transitions. Given that the effort is four years old, we’ll soon see...
Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries
Release Date:
08/18/2017
... like to be imprisoned there during the last two hundred years ... Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal ...
'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened
Release Date:
08/28/2017
Key players in the Trump administration have advised Mr. Trump to wind down the DACA program, and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has informed him he considers it unconstitutional and cannot defend it in court.
Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows
Release Date:
08/30/2017
Enrolling in Success Academy boosted test scores for some of its earliest students, according to a new study conducted by research firm MDRC.
New York State Health Foundation Funding Holistic Health in NY State
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... health care across the Empire State during the last 11 years , including better primary care, more access to mental ... But CEO David Sandman and his staff began to wonder two years ago whether their efforts...
One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Denisse Rojas, a third-year medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, with a mixture...
New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school...
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... in the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island three years ago. The CCRB sent letters to Garner’s family and the ...
Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... number of participants in the workforce over the past five years . . . Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere ...
Record Level of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... the highest level on record back to 2000 for the past two years . But the large number of available positions doesn’t ...
Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Concussions among young people are seen as a silent epidemic. As student athletes begin the next season of activities, experts say parents should get their children tested for brain injury before they even step on the field. Health reporter Erin...
Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Describing the results as “disappointing,” Harvard University reported on Tuesday that its $37.1 billion endowment earned an 8.1 percent return for its most recent fiscal year.
Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning It took 13 years , but the 250-plus administrators for the Buffalo Public ...
At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records
Release Date:
09/21/2017
The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has steadily expanded the city’s interpretation of a state law that bars public disclosure of the personnel records of police officers, firefighters and corrections officers.
Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... who has overseen several digital initiatives in his 15 years at the press. “We were already doing innovative ...
De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule Nearly two years after Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to create 15,000 ...
De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... have to write,” Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 years ago with the agency that runs the city’s water and ...
Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... on such scores for grades three to eight for the five years ending in June 2016. . . Study Finds Test-Score Growth ...