Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... incarceration crisis presents. While it seems that federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as ...
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Cuomo Administration Bullish On State Climate Action After RGGI Agreement
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Seggos said the agreement demonstrates that even with the federal inaction on climate change under President Donald ...
Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Program One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness ...
Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... firm MDRC. The analysis, funded by Success as part of a federal grant, found that the network’s third- and ...
USAID Announces Over $90 Million In Additional Humanitarian Assistance To Ethiopia
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... met today with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Administrator Green ...
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... death in July 2014 has been the subject of a long-running federal civil rights investigation. Review Board Recommends ...
Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Worried About Deportation Raids Increased efforts by federal immigration agents to deport undocumented immigrants ...
Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Advocate Who Fought The Defense Of Marriage Act, Dies At 88
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... married as well. When Spyer died in 2009, though, the federal government didn't recognize that love on Windsor's .....
Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... University in Washington, D.C. The proposal argued for federal regulation of donor-advised funds, including a ...
Northeast Needs Trump Commitment to Gateway Project
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... and job growth, the president has yet to commit to federal funding for half of the $30 billion Gateway project, ...
Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... to fast-track consideration of a plan that would devolve federal health-care spending to states. The Congressional ...
States Team Up To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... on track to meet their environmental targets, despite the federal government planning to pull out the global pact, New ...
Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... as of 2020, take the funds currently being spent by the federal government on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ...
Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ...
Judge Lays into Justice Department Lawyer over ‘Heartless’ DACA Decision
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... Lawyer over ‘Heartless’ DACA Decision A Brooklyn federal judge dressed down a Justice Department lawyer ...
Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... large gains in net worth over the past three years, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. But the improvements ...
Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Mayor de Blasio's free school lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’s left many in the city’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program they want their kids to receive.
20 Percent of Serious Food Safety Violations Go Ignored, New Report Finds
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... facilities, according to a report released by federal auditors Wednesday. In the remaining cases, the Food ...
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... use chronic absenteeism to measure schools under ESSA, the federal education law. “In that regard, I don’t think ...
Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... Jeff Sessions quoted those words in issuing guidance to federal agencies and prosecutors, instructing them to take ...