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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

... Seek New Direction at Symposium Independent charter schools view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas ... districts over space. Now, a group of these independent schools are planning their first...

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent ... 2007, when former mayor Adrian Fenty took control over the schools and appointed Michelle Rhee as chancellor. In ... system. At least $ 7 million...

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Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans

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06/01/2018

Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans The 2018 Perceptions of Public ... students. The poll found the strongest support for charter schools among parents of public...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance ... reforming school disciplinary practices nationwide."... Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance .....

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools Last fall, a disturbing video took over the Internet: ... extreme, but they are not isolated. All across America, schools predominantly serving...

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Children, Youth and Families

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After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors?

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09/28/2017

... need to do something about those metal detectors in these schools that have high school kids,” said Tammy Carey, a ...

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Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design

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03/25/2013

... Models for Student Success, that calls for a focus on how schools use teaching, time, technology, money, and other ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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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 about a new statewide workforce development program for high school students.

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

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01/16/2015

The current enrollment of 91,204 falls short of the 120,000-seat goal set in March 2014.

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants 'Hamilton' Tix to Bronx Theatre High School Students

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04/07/2016

... which are hard to come by at face value, went to high schools with concentrations of poor students... Rockefeller ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System

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09/26/2017

City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System City schools pay more for many basic classroom goods than they ... including major retailers such as Staples. . . City Schools Buy Marked-...

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Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools The New York State Board of Regents on Monday ... will implement the federal law, including how individual schools will be evaluated and identified for...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools

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08/22/2018

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Play in Michigan Schools Playworks , the leading national nonprofit leveraging ... the investment, $1,913,587 will enable 50,925 kids in 153 schools and out of school time...

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Wallace Foundation Invests $30 Million to Strengthen Supervisors Of School Principals

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06/24/2014

... to raise the quality of teaching and learning in schools . “This overlooked supervisor position has ... are organized to provide better support to principals in schools .” “In many large school districts,...

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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For School Leaders

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10/26/2015

The National Policy Board for Educational Administration unanimously adopted new standards for education school leaders.

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... students face—especially young people of color—when schools enforce punitive disciplinary systems. Along with ... • What should we do to change these patterns in schools ? Inequality in School Discipline...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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