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Independent charter schools view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of the model say they have “lost the narrative” to bigger networks.

The Fund for Public Housing launched an online platform this week in conjunction with ioby, a crowdfunding website, to enable NYCHA residents and organizations to fundraise for local sustainability initiatives.

During the judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are...

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello called on the Pentagon to provide more search-and-rescue help and humanitarian resources to help the beleaguered island recover from “complete devastation” from Hurricane Maria.

A new report released this week, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems, based on interviews with leading NGOs and grantmakers, seeks to offer some concrete recommendations and catalyze a conversation about how to change the industry with an eye...

Nearly two dozen teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay program at the school.

Staffers at the city's Administration of Children's Services are being sent to the NYPD’s Police Academy to receive special training in tactics and procedures they could use in their own investigations, the Daily News has learned.

The United States champions itself as a beacon of democracy, yet nearly a century after granting its women citizens the right to vote, it clocks in behind ninety-eight other countries with regard to women’s participation as representatives in...

Mark Zuckerberg said he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, plan to sell 35 million to 75 million shares of Facebook stock in the next 18 months to pay for their work in education, science, and advocacy.