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Charter school founders are pioneers of public education reform, staking their claim in the K - 12 education landscape by founding new schools in many historically underserved communities.

Not exact matches

A new study by Columbia Business School professor Wei Jiang found that the hedge fund filed appraisal petitions on five M&A transactions between 2010 and 2014.

A new study by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden and the London School of Economics finds the effects of roboticization in fact countervail much of the negative media sentiment.

Story Pirates Founded in 2003 by a group of Northwestern grads, this New York City — and Los Angeles — based nonprofit provides after - school writing and drama programs to underserved schools and produces stage shows for the public.

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

You can help businesses and their new employees who move to town by finding new housing and office space, and give them tips about schools, dining and shopping options, social activities and the best way to commute to work.

The piece by E.B. Boyd profiles a new Hacker School aimed at ending Silicon Valley's perpetual struggle to find enough trained engineers.

Research by the London School of Economics finds that a new type of market intermediary, which they call agencies, are responsible for a stunning 27 % of all workers hired at least once on Upwork.

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

The poll commissioned by the Accord Coalition found that four out of every five people asked opposed the Conservative plan to no longer require new over-subscribed faith schools to offer 50 per cent of their places to those of other religions or none.

This station has put together a consortium of businesses, schools and colleges, churches, hospitals, and community agencies, which already is helping reeducate people when they are displaced by «technology,» finding them find new jobs, training leaders in the areas of community services, and facilitating the discussion of common community projects.

Writing in a 1974 issue of History of Religions, Wayne Meeks of Yale University Divinity School proposed that congregations founded by Paul used a baptism ritual which reunified the male and female in each new believer.

By Tara Redfield, The New School of Cooking Straus Family Creamery, located in Northern California, was founded in 1994 and has now become one of the most well known organic...

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

Waldorf schools, founded nearly 90 years ago, were created with the intent to meet society's needs in a new way by fostering healthy, whole, truly free human beings.

However, this morning I found two new comments on the blog left by a reader named Dana — whom, I should mention at the outset, is not Dana Woldow, the San Francisco school food reformer who often comments here and is no great fan of Jamie.

That bizarre scenario was all I could think of when I received an email yesterday from the School Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (Hschool food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

About Color Me Cured: Founded by Phoebe Steinfeld, a high school sophomore in New Jersey, Color Me Cured is a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of raising money in support of cancer research.

Many British home educators, who start by using structure a bit like a school day, find themselves veering more and more to autonomous child - led learning, exploring new topics together, and following the child's own need to learn at their own rate.

Group prenatal care can substantially improve health outcomes for both mothers and their infants, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found.

A new study to appear in the Journal of Econometrics and reported by Science Daily has found that participation in the National School Lunch Program («NSLP») reduces food insecurity among impoverished children by 3.8 percent and reduces poor general health by 29 percent.

Help your child start the school year off right by organizing their school supplies in a new clear pencil case with trendy gold dot detailing as made by Sarah Hearts so that they can keep all their school work essentials, such as pencils, a ruler, scissors, eraser, and markers all together so they can be easily found.

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New York City's Department of Education said that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva MoskowiNew York City's Department of Education said that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva Moskowinew middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz.

A study by the New York State School Boards Association finds three quarters of the state's school districts would have exceeded the new 2 % property tax cap, had it been in effect for the current school year budgNew York State School Boards Association finds three quarters of the state's school districts would have exceeded the new 2 % property tax cap, had it been in effect for the current school year bSchool Boards Association finds three quarters of the state's school districts would have exceeded the new 2 % property tax cap, had it been in effect for the current school year bschool districts would have exceeded the new 2 % property tax cap, had it been in effect for the current school year budgnew 2 % property tax cap, had it been in effect for the current school year bschool year budget.

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

New research released last month by JobsFirstNYC and the Community Service Society found that more than 136,000 young adults 18 - 24 years old in New York City are not working and not enrolled in school.

Meanwhile a research and data report from the Empire Center for Public Policy, which describes itself as «an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Albany, New York,» found that since the tax cap went into effect, school tax levies have risen by an average of just 2.2 percent annually — the lowest in any four - year period since 1982.

Republicans have been helped by $ 1.6 million in spending by New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, which was founded by the national charter school advocacy group StudentsFirst.

«In November, the nonpartisan Research Alliance for New York City Schools presented findings from a rigorous analysis of school closures under Mayor Bloomberg, showing that graduation rates improved by 15 - points for students who left and attendance and graduation rates improved for those who remained during the transition.

Homeless students are more likely to attend «suspension hub» schools, where high numbers are disciplined by being kept from class, a new report found.

If you find this hard to believe, refer to Constitutional law professor James B. Jacobs of the New York University School of Law who says it succinctly in a working paper on the SAFE Act (emphasis added): a «reported individual [targeted by the SAFE Act] is not entitled to any due process, or even to notice, before being stripped of his rights.»

Two days before the first anniversary of the Newtown school massacre, Bloomberg unveiled a new investigation that found thousands of guns could be sold illegally by unlicensed firearms dealers on just one classified ad Web site.

Analysis by the Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University's law school found 11 % of Americans lack a government - issued photo ID like a passport or driver's license.

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Sections of Harris Field, a heavily - used park sandwiched between Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, were found to have four times the federally - established legal limit of lead contamination for public play areas, according to documents obtained by the Norwood News with the help of the nonprofit New York City Park Advocates.

According to an editorial in the New York Post, three Success Academy charter schools, run by Eva Moskowitz, will have to find new locatioNew York Post, three Success Academy charter schools, run by Eva Moskowitz, will have to find new locationew locations.

In response, Governor Andrew Cuomo and other New York lawmakers say they believe they have found a way where residents can still deduct more, by having local schools, counties and municipalities set up a charitable fund where a portion of the money contributed will go to whichever entity sent yo a bill, and a small percentage willl be donated to charity.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

School districts are seeing improved financial situations, but that growth has not kept pace with the increasing needs of students, a report released Tuesday by the New York State Council of School Superintendents found.

Ahead of the release of the new London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine report «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», please find the following statement issued by the Institute of Alcohol Studies, below (in bold).

New York schools have not implement key elements of an anti-bullying law, an audit released Friday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found.

New York state's comptroller finds that local and school property taxes will increase by the lowest percentage in decades, under the rules of the tax cap program recently renewed by the state legislature.

Moskowitz wrote that the city's Department of Education promised to find space for eight new Success schools by June 30, a deadline the Panel for Educational Policy will miss.

The New York State School Boards Association finds that many school districts are living within the limits imposed by a property tax cap enacted two yearSchool Boards Association finds that many school districts are living within the limits imposed by a property tax cap enacted two yearschool districts are living within the limits imposed by a property tax cap enacted two years ago.

The algebra initiative is inspired by a recent report by researchers at the New School, which found that students who don't take algebra do not have access to high - level math and science courses in high school, and are less likely to be college School, which found that students who don't take algebra do not have access to high - level math and science courses in high school, and are less likely to be college school, and are less likely to be college ready.