Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... but the 250-plus administrators for the Buffalo Public Schools finally have a new contract that includes raises. ...
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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success
Release Date:
09/27/2017
How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance?
Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More
Release Date:
01/25/2016
Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools , but Critics Want More Mayor Bill de Blasio is ... in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently well below what they...
Target Hands Decision on $5-Million Schools Gift to Online Voters
Release Date:
08/15/2013
... how it will distribute $5 million in donations to public schools through its “Give With Target” campaign. (Target ... how it will distribute $5-million in donations to public schools , the first time the store...
Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic
Release Date:
04/21/2016
... nature” of conversations today about how to integrate schools . Speaking at a Century Foundation panel on Tuesday to ...
Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms
Release Date:
12/01/2016
Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms A message from PNY President ... Education Working Group has frequently examined how schools – both in the City and across the nation – pursue ... end up...
New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations
Release Date:
05/12/2015
New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations The Fund for Public Schools , the nonprofit organization that former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellors built into a...
Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program
Release Date:
03/14/2016
Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program The ... New Jersey, has awarded more than $45,000 in grants to schools supporting educational field trips. The 83 grants ... these...
Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation
Release Date:
05/12/2017
Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.
Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals
Release Date:
10/07/2015
... order to create the most effective principals for public schools . According to the report, it is the first study of ...
Wallace Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools
Release Date:
11/03/2015
... Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools In its three years of offering college ... and other services to students in the Buffalo Public Schools , Say Yes has greatly expanded its...
Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs
Release Date:
02/17/2016
The Wallace-commissioned Out-of-School-Time Cost Calculator is a free, online tool designed to help providers estimate the costs of delivering a variety of after-school and summer programs. It's been updated and made accessible for mobile.
Hyde and Watson Foundation Supports New Green Roof at New Jersey School
Release Date:
04/21/2017
Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) is a buzz with activities this spring involving their K through 12 students and their new Green Roof that boasts spectacular views of the New York City skyline. The Green Roof officially opened on Tuesday, April 18...
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...
A Free Lunch Coalition Tries to Make School Meals a Mayoral Issue
Release Date:
10/17/2013
... nothing to do with universal pre-kindergarten or charter schools . The Lunch 4 Learning campaign, comprised of 85 ...
Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe
Release Date:
03/09/2018
Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe A few months before the tragic shooting of 17 ... their sense of being loved and belonging. Our public schools and educators, who teach more than 90...
Iris Chen Named Executive Director of The Fund for Public Schools
Release Date:
08/05/2014
Iris Chen Named Executive Director of The Fund for Public Schools Iris Chen has been named executive director of The Fund for Public Schools . Chen comes to the Fund from Beyond Z, a nonprofit ... As executive...
An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Release Date:
12/22/2016
... Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools Many funders want to ensure college access for ... exactly this challenge: How to open up the doors to elite schools that, by some measures, have...
Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School
Release Date:
06/01/2017
Investor George Soros hit back Thursday against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism.
For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Jaime Ballesteros tried to contain his tears on Tuesday while teaching Brooklyn sixth graders about liquids, gases and solids. In between science classes at a charter school in East New York, he broke down at his desk.