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The Century Foundation Releases Report - Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today

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12/02/2021

... to racially and economically segregated, underfunded schools .4 Nationwide, two out of five Black and Latinx students attend schools where more than 90 percent of their classmates are ... children are the...

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Committee for Children Launches Out-of-School Time SEL Program with Support from The Wallace Foundation

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03/26/2019

... annually with research-based SEL curricula taught in schools across the US and around the world, we know that ...

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Health & Human Services

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New York Life Foundation's Award-Winning Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative Surpasses Milestone

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07/11/2019

New York Life Foundation's Award-Winning Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative Surpasses Milestone NEW YORK, July 11, ... goal of providing grief training and resources to 1,000 schools across the country...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies Provides a $3.25 Million Grant to Cornell Law School for Death Penalty Center

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10/28/2016

The center will focus on the application of international human rights norms that favor abolition of the death penalty in the United States and other countries.

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Tow Foundation Funded CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Announces First-Ever Endowed Chair, Professor Jeff Jarvis

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11/21/2017

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is excited to announce its first-ever endowed chair, in journalism innovation, and the first designee will be Professor Jeff Jarvis, a world-renowned thought leader on the future of the news business.

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United Way To Receive $52 Million Over Four Years To Help Turn New York City Schools Into Services Hubs

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06/16/2014

... $52 Million Over Four Years To Help Turn New York City Schools Into Services Hubs Mayor Bill de Blasio's ... step toward meeting a campaign pledge to turn at least 100 schools into community hubs that...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Donates $1.6 Million to Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia

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10/21/2014

SOS Children's Villages has received a $1.6 million grant to fund its EduCare Program.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... much policy attention in decades: diversity in public schools . If the request is approved, $120 million will go to school districts for programs intended to make their schools more diverse. As a new pair of...

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Klarman Family Foundation Among Donors to Boston Public Schools Arts Expanision Initiative

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06/25/2019

Klarman Family Foundation Among Donors to Boston Public Schools Arts Expanision Initiative Three Jamaica Plain schools are among 60 Boston Public Schools that will receive $350,000 in grants to...

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report

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03/13/2018

New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools " Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report ... For example, if you want to learn how to improve city schools , look how Washington, New...

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After-School All-Stars Receives $4 Million Grant From New York Life Foundation

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03/08/2014

After-School All-Stars has received a $4 million grant from the New York Life Foundation to expand its services in six U.S. cities, reports Philanthropy News Digest.

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PNY Members Among Top Ten Funders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work

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09/18/2014

... Members Among Top Ten FUnders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work Between 2011 and 2012, foundations invested nearly $14.8 million in LGBTQ education and safe schools work – which amounted to...

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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Have Increased Graduation Rates, ... Findings from a new long-term study of small high schools in New York City show the approach may not only boost ... but it may also...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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NYSHealth Supports Survey That Unveils Strong Appetite For Health Insurance Info—As Early As High School

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10/13/2016

In a nationwide consumer survey conducted this year for FAIR Health by ORC International, 76 percent of respondents felt people should begin understanding health insurance plans before or during high school or college.

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After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty Rosa picked a seemingly strange school to visit: Success Academy Bronx 2.

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this year in an effort to get more kids to...

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Housing and Homelessness

Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... discriminating against students in nonpublic and religious schools ,” said Allen Fagin, CEO of the Orthodox Union, a ...

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SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

... Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers A state group that oversees some New York charter schools has revised a hotly contested proposal to let its ...

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The Century Foundation Launches the Bridges Collaborative, An Unprecedented Grassroots Initiative to Advance School Integration

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10/06/2020

... and socioeconomic integration and equity in America’s schools , officially launched this week. The inaugural cohort ... organizations—including 27 school districts, 17 charter schools , and 12 housing...

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