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The articles linked below are from external sources (newspapers, magazines, policy organizations, research institutions, etc.). The foundation found them of interest in the course of its general research on New York City, New York State, and national issues connected to the areas in which we work. We will update the links below from time to time, and encourage you to check back periodically for newly posted items of interest on poverty, education, workforce development, early childhood, family support, youth development, and criminal justice reform issues.
- Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- nyc.gov (Mayor's Office press release)
- New York City Schools to Receive Between $250 Million and $300 Million
- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew today celebrated New York State's selection and award of $700 million in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top competition. This award will provide between $250 million and $300 million to New York City schools to support the creation of a new teacher evaluation system, develop a more rigorous curriculum and State assessments based on the national Common Core Standards, and expand a range of proven reforms first introduced in New York City.
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- Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- The New York Times
- New York Wins Nearly $700 Million for Education
- New York captured almost $700 million for schools when it was selected Tuesday as one of 10 winners in the federal Race to the Top competition, a victory for state education officials as well as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who had pushed the Legislature to enact changes that helped secure the money.
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- Sunday, August 1, 2010
- The New York Times
- When 81% Passing Suddenly Becomes 18%
- Linda L. Singer, the principal of Public School 255 in Gravesend, Brooklyn, has some phone calls she is dreading to make. Among them: informing 10 families that their children, scheduled to enroll in gifted programs, will no longer qualify, because of new, tougher grading on state English and math exams.
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- Friday, May 28, 2010
- The New York Times
- New York State Votes to Expand Charter Schools
- The New York Legislature voted on Friday to more than double the number of charter schools in the state, handing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a significant victory that he and education officials hope will give the state a chance of receiving $700 million in federal grant money.
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- Thursday, April 8, 2010
- The Daily News
- Geoffrey Canada on School Choice and Charter Schools
- Harlem Children's Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada responds to the recent position of New York State politicians opposed to expanding the number of charter schools.
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- Wednesday, April 7, 2010
- New York Times
- Study Finds More Woes Following Foster Care
- Only half the youths who had turned 18 and “aged out” of foster care were employed by their mid-20s. Six in 10 men had been convicted of a crime, and three in four women, many of them with children of their own, were receiving some form of public assistance. Only six in 100 had completed even a community college degree.
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- Wednesday, January 20, 2010
- Bloomberg News
- Ivy Leaguers’ Class for Poor Becomes ‘Platinum’ Charter Schools
- In 1993, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin were recent Ivy League graduates teaching fifth graders in Houston’s inner city. The students were as much as two academic years behind their middle-class peers. year later, Feinberg and Levin started a classroom that operated nine hours a day instead of the normal seven, as well as on some Saturdays and during the summer. Within a year, the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math jumped to 90 percent from 50 percent.
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- Wednesday, January 20, 2010
- The New York Times
- City Signals Intent to Put Fewer Teenagers in Jail
- The Bloomberg administration plans to merge the city’s Department of Juvenile Justice into its child welfare agency, signaling a more therapeutic approach toward delinquency that will send fewer of the city’s troubled teenagers to jail.
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- Sunday, December 13, 2009
- The New York Times
- New York Finds Extreme Crisis in Youth Prisons
- New York’s system of juvenile prisons is broken, with young people battling mental illness or addiction held alongside violent offenders in abysmal facilities where they receive little counseling, can be physically abused and rarely get even a basic education, according to a report by a state panel.
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- Friday, October 16, 2009
- Crain's New York Business
- City’s Jobless Rate Hits 10.3%
- The city's unemployment rate remained in double digits last month, rising slightly to 10.3% from a revised 10.2% in August, signaling the recession is far from over in the five boroughs, a report by the state Department of Labor shows.
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- Thursday, October 15, 2009
- The National Bureau of Economic Research
- The New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project
- A recent report by Caroline M. Hoxby, Sonali Murarka, and Jenny Kangand examines how New York City's charter schools impact student achievement.
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- Tuesday, August 18, 2009
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
- Defying the Downturn, Charter School Construction Grows in New York
- In an economy where much construction has ground to a halt, charter schools are providing a minor but growing niche for the building and design industries in the New York City area.
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- Tuesday, August 4, 2009
- bloomberg.com
- Duncan Wields $100 Billion to Make U.S. Schools Like Chicago’s
- Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Sue Duncan has taught poor kids at her after-school center on Chicago’s South Side for 48 years. She says her son Arne spent seven days a week there as he was growing up
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- Monday, August 3, 2009
- The New York Times
- Gains on Tests in New York Schools Don’t Silence Critics
- They determine the A through F grades that can make or break a school’s reputation, as well as which schools go out of business. They dictate which principals receive five-figure bonuses and which stand to lose their jobs. Mastering them has meant cash rewards for thousands of students, and their teachers.
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- Friday, July 24, 2009
- The New York Times
- Senate Deal Keeps Mayor in Control of Schools
- After weeks of delays, negotiating and name-calling, Democrats in the New York Senate reached a deal with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday to renew the law giving him control over city schools.
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- Thursday, June 4, 2009
- The New York Times
- Next Test: Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers
- A school opening in New York in September may test whether high pay translates into more successful students
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- Monday, June 1, 2009
- The New York Times
- New York City Shows Gains in Math
- New York City’s public school students showed large gains on state math tests this year, particularly in the middle school grades, and black and Hispanic students continued to edge closer to their white counterparts, the city and state education departments announced on Monday.
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- Monday, May 11, 2009
- Gotham Gazette
- The End of the Rockefeller Era
- Thirty-five years after New York's criminal justice system was invaded by a misguided and counterproductive legislative scheme to fight the "war on drugs," there is finally some relief. The statutes known as the "Rockefeller Drug Laws," enacted in 1973 when Nelson A. Rockefeller was governor, have long been called draconian, the harshest in the nation and the end of judicial independence.
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- Thursday, May 7, 2009
- The New York Times
- More New York Students Meet State Standards in English
- The number of elementary and middle school students meeting standards in English rose sharply in New York City and across the state, according to test results released on Thursday by the State Education Department.
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- Monday, April 27, 2009
- Gotham Gazette
- The Mayor’s High Stakes Test
- For the next few days, New York City public school parents can vote in what the city's Department of Education bills as "the first public election in the U.S. to be held entirely online."
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- Thursday, April 9, 2009
- New York Nonprofit Press
- SCO Opens Family Development Center
- SCO Family of Services held a Community Breakfast on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the newest location of their Family Development Center.
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- Tuesday, April 7, 2009
- The New York Times
- Triumphing Over Long Odds to Succeed at School
- Before the economy collapsed and thrift became a national watchword, a high school senior named Wei Huang was already scouring New York City for bargains, determined to support herself on the $10 a month she had left after she paid her rent.
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- Tuesday, April 7, 2009
- New York Nonprofit Press
- Bloomberg Outlines Initiatives to Assist Nonprofits
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday today outlined a series of new initiatives to help New York City’s more than 40,000 cultural, health and social service nonprofit organizations survive the economic downturn.
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- Tuesday, April 7, 2009
- The New York Times
- Too Old for Foster Care, and Facing the Recession
- Even in boom times, young people who become too old for the foster-care system often struggle to make it on their own, lacking families, job skills or adequate educations.
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- Sunday, March 29, 2009
- New York State
- Governor Paterson Announces Federal Economic Recovery Aid will Provide Major Additional Funding for Education.
- Governor David A. Paterson today announced that federal economic recovery aid reflected in the final State budget agreement will provide dramatic increased resources for school districts.
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- Friday, January 23, 2009
- New York Nonprofit Press
- WHEDCo Celebrates Intervale Green
- The Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo), a community based non-profit organization in the Bronx, recently hosted an open house event to celebrate the completion of the largest affordable ENERGY STAR certified building in the country, Intervale Green, proving that healthy, sustainable building techniques and beautiful design can be achieved in affordable housing.
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