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Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?

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10/04/2017

... not, why not? And if not, what do you think could be done to ensure you get more sleep during the school year? In ... waking up much earlier than they’d prefer as they return to school. . . Would a Later...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

... Discipline Reform The allegations sound like a parent’ s nightmare. Roughly two dozen children at New York City schools were hit, kicked, and bullied by fellow students ... Excellent Schools...

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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 ... group Class Size Matters. Despite the Department of ...

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... organizations to prepare future principals for the city' s schools . Among the stipulations of the foundation' s grant: ... According to Jody...

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

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12/03/2015

Rockefeller’ s Sarah Geisenheimer to Step in for Chen at Fund for Public Schools Sarah Geisenheimer, of the Rockefeller Foundation, ... Iris Chen, executive director of the NYC Department of...

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PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School

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02/10/2015

... Placed on Black Girls in School President Obama’ s November report on Women and Girls of Color was an important step, inviting attention to reduce the barriers confronting them on the path to...

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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 ... jobs, but only 400,000 computer science students. It’ s time our ...

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KIPP NYC Charter School Network Is Investigating Claims of Past Sex Abuse

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09/28/2017

... of sexual misconduct that occurred more than 10 years ago. Following a recent precedent set by many private schools , including St. Paul’ s School in New Hampshire and Choate Rosemary Hall in...

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NY begins first statewide school-to-job project

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11/03/2013

IBM' s Stanley Litow was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article ... statewide program in the nation using an innovative school- to -career program to link students with companies in search...

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After-School Enrollment Up, but Still Shy of Lofty de Blasio Goals

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01/16/2015

... de Blasio Goals The de Blasio administration managed to boost enrollment in after-school programs for ... goals, a Post review found. On Wednesday, the Mayor’ s Office boasted that enrollment had reached “...

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It's Time to Apply to High School in New York City

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09/18/2017

It' s Time to Apply to High School in New York City It' s officially a very busy time of year for New York City' s ... majority of New York City...

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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World GivePower ... energy poverty by providing solar-powered lighting to schools in the developing world—is...

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools

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11/03/2015

Wallace Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools In its three years of offering college scholarships and other services to ...

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Issue Guide: Limits on Nonprofit Executive Compensation

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01/2013

Philanthropy New York' s public policy issue guide on the regulation of nonprofit .....

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Regulating Donor Advised Funds

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10/2015

A donor-advised fund is a giving vehicle designed to manage donations on behalf of individuals, families or organizations. DAFs provide a flexible way for donors to give to charities—an alternative to direct giving or ... individual donations to charity. Over the last several years , critics of DAFs have sought greater regulation that ...

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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 ... this issue of inter-district segregation. The report’ s author, The Century Foundation ...

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Philanthropy's Key Contributions to Society

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08/2008

A compilation of well-known innovations that can be traced to foundation funding over the past 100 years . Philanthropy' s Key Contributions to Society .....

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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 dedicating $159 million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools...

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Morgan Stanley Foundation to Fund Houston Food Bank School Pantry Program

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05/31/2019

Morgan Stanley Foundation to Fund Houston Food Bank School Pantry Program Houston Food ... the grant award, employees from Morgan Stanley’ s Houston branch volunteered at Houston Food Bank as part of Morgan...

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