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U.S. Education Budget Roiled by Financial Crisis
Source: Education Week
by Alyson Klein The result of the presidential election will likely help determine how much money education programs receive in the 2009 federal fiscal year, which begins this week. But a multi-billion-dollar federal plan to assist the financial markets may leave the next president with…
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Support This Bill
Source: Time Magazine
Original Source By Edward M. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch Imagine the enormous difference it would make to our communities and nation if every American served for a year with a community-service group, nonprofit enterprise or faith-based organization. This month we're introducing in the Senate the…
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Looking at the Dropout Issue
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Some of the most troubling questions about schools, such as what causes dropouts, have few clear answers because there is so little research. And the reason that data is lacking, at least in part, is that…
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Too young to drive, she wins a car
Source: Chicago Tribune
Original Source By Karl Stampfl, Bonnie Miller Rubin and Kristen Kridel, Tribune reporters For her strong school attendance record, Ashley Martinez won a sparkling new Dodge Caliber-a sporty hatchback that starts at about $15,000. Unfortunately, she needs to wait four years to drive her prize.…
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Initiative to Assist Low-Income Families in U.S. Awarded $5.5M Grant
Source: SingleStop USA
SingleStop USA Aims to Lift One Million Households Out of Poverty. SingleStop USA, a new national initiative that connects low-income families and individuals with public benefits like children's health coverage and tax credits, and services, such as legal and financial counseling, has received a $5.5…
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Campaign exceeds goal
Source: The Ithacan Online
By Aaron Munzer President Peggy R. Williams announced last Friday that Ithaca College's first Capital Campaign has far surpassed its goal after raising $145 million - a sum that jumped after a last-minute gift of $25 million from the Atlantic Philanthropies. The college beat their…
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Way to Grow
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Charities use business practices to rapidly expand their programs Harlem Children's Zone, in New York City, works with 10,000 children a year, up from just 1,500 in 1990 - and it plans to grow by another 50 percent in the next four years. Teach for…
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Unstuck in the Middle
Source: The Washington Post
By Jay Matthews FOR MANY AMERICAN PARENTS, MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS BECOME SOMETHING TO DREAD. They hear that even the fancy private middle schools that charge $20,000 a year will be one of two things: a lockdown prison or an anything-goes playpen. Educators have mostly given…
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Kennedy to promote extended school days
Source: The Boston Globe
US Senator Edward M. Kennedy plans today in Washington to tout Massachusetts' push for longer school days as a national model, saying students need additional time to master 21st-century skills in a new global economy. Massachusetts is the first to undertake a state-sponsored initiative to…
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Increasing the Civic Engagement of Third Age Health Professionals
Source: American Health Initiatives
Taking Action From its inception AHI has worked to build a sustainable platform for public dialogue about a quality system in which every American is assured equitable and affordable access to basic health care. To do that we designed and successfully tested two central platform…
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